This paper investigates whether monetary and non-monetary indicators tell the same story about chronic poverty using a … find that monetary poverty is less persistent than malnutrition among adults and stunting among children (although there is … some evidence of catch-up among stunted children). Monetary poverty is also found to be less persistent than primary and …

This background paper provides some preliminary estimates of the global incidence of chronic poverty for the Chronic … Poverty Report 2004-05. We define chronic poverty as remaining below the poverty line for at least five years, with welfare … measured in expenditure or income terms. Using the latest estimates on the magnitude of static dollar a day poverty available …

In this paper we explore the implications of using two different methodological approaches to study poverty dynamics in … methods lead to very different assessments of socio-economic mobility, in particular movements into and out of poverty. We … discuss the reasons why qualitative and quantitative assessments of poverty dynamics for the same households differ and …

indicators of the MDGs (monetary poverty, child malnutrition, non-enrolment in primary school, and under-five mortality) for the …

Although economic reform has brought remarkable progress in poverty reduction in Vietnam, the scale and depth of ethnic … minority poverty in Vietnam presents one of the major challenges to achieving the targets for poverty reduction set out in the …

The authors combine household survey and census data to construct a provincial poverty map of Vietnam and evaluate the … data on the same household characteristics from the 1999 census to estimate the incidence of poverty in each province. The … results show that rural poverty is concentrated in 10 provinces in the Northern Uplands, 2 provinces in the Central Highlands …