for this new measure is the current level of wellbeing of a household as opposed to another benchmark such as the poverty …) axiomatic measure of vulnerability to poverty. We apply a measure of both vulnerability to downside risk and to poverty to data … is highly non-linear. While moderately but not extremely poor households are relatively vulnerable to extreme poverty …

households headed by men. We analyze the determinants of consumption, shock exposure and vulnerability to poverty. Using unique … and less vulnerable to poverty than households with a male head. In Vietnam de jure female-headed households are … consumption poorer and more vulnerable to poverty. In Thailand de jure female-headed households do not differ significantly from …

Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …

This paper is concerned with concepts - poverty, inequality, affluence, and polarization - that are typically treated … is on "well-off" countries where poverty is a minority, rather than a majority, phenomenon. At the other end of the scale … measurement of "affluence" can proceed along similar lines to the measurement of poverty. The threshold may be set, relatively, as …

and childcare on estimates of income inequality and financial poverty in 23 European countries. The valuation of public … scale). Even though the ranking of countries by estimates of overall inequality and poverty proves to be only slightly … affected by the choice between the conventional EU scale and the NA scale, poverty estimates by household types are shown to be …

This paper provides an in-depth look at some of the key development issues facing households in Ethiopia, in the … Ethiopia is making progress toward some vital MDG goals, but household incomes are shockingly low and hugely varied. Assets …

risks in their measures. The reason for this is that most of them use a pre-determined threshold such as the poverty line as …

This paper evaluates the ex-post impact of adopting improved groundnut varieties on crop income and rural poverty in … estimated the average adoption premium using propensity score matching (PSM), poverty dominance analysis tests, and a linear … regression model to check robustness of results. Poverty dominance analysis tests and linear regression estimates are based on …

Martin Ravallion ("Why Don't We See Poverty Convergence?" American Economic Review, 102(1): 504-23; 2012) presents … evidence against the existence of poverty convergence in aggregate data despite the conditional convergence of per capita … income levels and the close linkage between growth and poverty reduction in standard neoclassic growth theory and associated …