Using consumption/expenditure based poverty lines, the 1995/6 estimated poverty measures indicate an overall headcount … index of 22.9 percent, which is slightly higher in rural areas. The paper shows that in Egypt, poverty is highly growth … elastic, and thus poverty reduction will improve with higher rates of growth provided the growth process does not lead to an …

Poverty analysis in Tunisia so far depends heavily upon the choice of poverty lines. In this paper we propose to adopt …. This will then enable us to analyze poverty in Tunisia in a robust manner and find that poverty is actually a rural …