Poverty maps are a useful tool for the targeting of social programs on areas with high concentrations of poverty …. However, a static focus on poverty ignores the temporal dimension of poverty. Thus, current nonpoor households still face … substantial welfare volatility and are at risk of becoming poor in the face of shocks. We combine the methods of poverty mapping …

Poverty alleviation remains one of the ancient goals of Malawi as the country has since 1994 adopted a poverty … alleviation strategy throughout its developmental programs. Through the support of the World Bank, a poverty monitoring system was … establishment of the LSMS, findings of different assessments and eras have revealed instabilities in the country's poverty levels …

This study is an attempt to estimate the incidence, severity, depth, and determinants of poverty in Jhang district …-regression model and logistic regression to assess the impact of demographic and socioeconomic factors on poverty incidence. The … results show that 54.3% of households are below the poverty line, including 16% extremely poor. Poverty measures including …

Indonesia has lowered the total poverty rate by less than 10%. Earlier poverty measurements in Indonesia suggest that … transient poverty is more prevalent. We argue that, when employing the Equally Distributed Equivalent (EDE) approach and … disaggregated poverty lines, chronic poverty is more prevalent than transient poverty. We estimated chronic and transient poverty in …

Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but … this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, moderate, and extreme poverty in Ghana …-sectional data. While we find considerable conditional chronic (extreme) poverty rates hovering around 50-60 percent, there is more …