This chapter offers a primer on poverty, inequality, and vulnerability analysis and a guide to resources on this topic …. It is written for decision makers who want to define the type of information they need to monitor poverty reduction and …

This chapter was written in 2007 in order to inform the diagnostic of Liberia’s Poverty Reduction Strategy. Little has …

because of lack of good data. This chapter was also written in 2007 to inform the diagnostic of Liberia’s Poverty Reduction …

newly available household surveys have permitted the estimation of measures of poverty among cotton producers in West and … Central Africa, as well as simulations of the impact that changes in producer prices may have on poverty. …

the population in poverty declined from 49.0 percent in 1988-89 to 36.7 percent in 2001-02. The results presented here … suggest a continuation of this trend with only 26.6 percent of the population in poverty in 2007. This article describes the … methodology used to derive these estimates and presents a profile of poverty according to household characteristics. In addition …

of poverty. This paper documents poverty trends in Guinea using the last three household surveys available, implemented … in 1994/95, 2002/03, and 2007. The estimates suggest that the share of the population living in poverty increased to 53 … affected and it is likely that the increase in food prices observed recently contributed to an additional increase in poverty …

To help prepare Liberia’s poverty reduction strategy, a CWIQ (Core Welfare Indicator Questionnaire) household survey … of this survey to estimate the level of poverty and vulnerability in the country, provide a profile of poverty, and … analyze the correlates of consumption and poverty at the household level. It is estimated that slightly less than two …

This paper presents a basic profile and analysis of the correlates of poverty in the Central African Republic using … African Institute of Statistics and Economic and Social Studies. The estimates of poverty are obtained following the cost of … basic needs methodology. Poverty affects almost two thirds of the population, particularly in rural areas. Among the most …

focus groups. Before the crisis, Senegal had experienced a dramatic reduction of poverty, and this is observed whether one … relies on objective measures of poverty based on consumption or subjective assessments by households. Despite this progress … that the recent rise in food and oil prices has had a negative impact on poverty. Qualitative data collected through focus …