, and Nutrition / Frankenberg, Elizabeth / Thomas, Duncan -- 2. Poverty and Cognitive Function / Dean, Emma Boswell … / Schilbach, Frank / Schofield, Heather -- Comment on Chapters 1 and 2 / Hoddinott, John -- II. Psychology of Poverty, Hope, and …. Hope as Aspirations, Agency, and Pathways. Poverty Dynamics and Microfinance in Oaxaca, Mexico / Lybbert, Travis J …

The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala …-i-Martin (2009), we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality and welfare indices for African countries for the … period 1970-2006. We show that: (1) African poverty is falling and is falling rapidly; (2) if present trends continue, the …

Much of Africa has not yet gone through a "demographic transition" to reduced mortality and fertility rates. The fact … growth (with an accompanying state of chronic extreme poverty) has been attributed to many factors ranging from the status of … women, pro-natalist policies, poverty itself, and social institutions. There remains, however, a large degree of uncertainty …

worsening of various income inequality indexes and we estimate poverty rates and headcounts. We then analyze some of the central …The dismal growth performance of Africa is the worst economic tragedy of the XXth century. We document the evolution of … rates Africa would have enjoyed if these key determinants had taken OECD rather than African values. Expensive investment …

assumption. Our comprehensive assessment for sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread widely … consistent with intra-household inequality but other factors also appear to be at work including common health risks …

Proxy-means testing is a popular method of poverty targeting with imperfect information. In a now widely-used version …, thus diminishing the impact on poverty. Some methodological changes perform better, with a poverty-quantile method … as well, or almost as well, in reducing poverty. However, even with a budget sufficient to eliminate poverty with full …