Since the 1994 devaluation, growth resumed in Mali without any significant decrease of poverty. This may be explained … by the high level of inequality, which has increased in the recent period. The poverty reduction strategy described in …

This article investigates the evolution of urban poverty in its various dimensions in Côte d'Ivoire since the eighties …. The robustness of the results is checked using dominance criteria. An econometric analysis of the determinants of poverty … complements the analysis. The study shows that the dynamic of poverty in terms of existence conditions can significantly differ …

Despite the increasing awareness concerning the importance of distinguishing chronic and transient poverty for policy … making, cross-country comparative studies of poverty dynamics in developing countries are virtually non-existent. The small … differences among them. Crucial questions are still unanswered. Are the factors associated with chronic poverty and vulnerability …

How has poverty changed during the 1997-99 period, when the Peruvian economic performance deteriorated seriously under …-section comparisons of poverty indicators. In this paper we extend the analysis first by examining the robustness of these kind of … comparisons by considering sampling errors and stochastic dominance and second, by analyzing poverty transitions for households …

household incomes, their distribution and poverty depend very crucially on the hypothesis made on the evolution of returns to …