-year interval (2003 and 2004) to explore the major determinants of the transition out of/into poverty of rural households. Poverty … status is measured in the asset space, thus indicating structural rather than transitory poverty movements. The empirical … have no positive impact on poverty levels, nor on mobility out of poverty. Second, the rate of increase in the share of …

The poverty mapping methodology for estimating welfare rankings from small areas has proven to be useful in guiding … allocation of government funds, regional planning, and general policy formulation. Nevertheless, poverty mapping also suffers …