Previous poverty assessments for Burkina Faso were due to the neglect of some important methodological issues … misleading and led to the so-called 'Burkinabè Growth-Poverty-Paradox', i.e. relatively sustained macro-economic growth, but … almost constant poverty. We estimate that poverty significantly decreased between 1994 and 2003 at least on the national …

Using a micro-level approach to poverty traps, this paper explores welfare dynamics among households in post-war rural … Mozambique. Conceptually, the paper builds on an asset-based approach to poverty and tests empirically, with household panel data …, for the existence of a poverty trap. Findings indicate that there is little differentiation in productive asset endowments …

poverty in the Member States of the European Union, using the _rst four waves (1994 - 1997) of the European Community … Household Panel (ECHP). In addition to this detailed consideration of the time dimension, poverty incidence, poverty gap and … poverty intensity are measured. Overall, the ranking across countries and dimensions is relatively robust. Denmark and …

Over the last four decades, academic and wider public interest in inequality and poverty has grown substantially. In … this paper we address the question: what have been the major new directions in the analysis of inequality and poverty over … inequality and poverty, changes in the policy environment, increased scrutiny of the concepts of 'poverty' and inequality' and …

persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … poor individuals stayed in poverty for two years on average. In East Germany, the contribution of the permanent component … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty …

households and that both approaches confirm poverty is mainly transient in rural Ethiopia. However, we find that the trend in …This study aims to explore poverty measures, its dynamics and determinants using Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI …) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of …

genuine state dependence in poverty. We also provide estimates of low income transition rates and lengths of poverty and non-poverty …