While land reforms have long been motivated as a potential policy lever of rural growth and development, there is … exposure to the program. -- land reform ; poverty ; impact evaluation …

to impute missing and interval-censored values in the 2000 and 2006 Labour Force Surveys, and compares poverty estimates … obtained under several different methods of reconciling coarsened earnings data. Estimates of poverty amongst the employed are … data ; multiple imputation ; poverty ; wage distribution ; working poor …

there is a sharp gender differential in terms of poverty. Ignoring economies of scale leads to an overestimation of poverty … underestimation of child poverty. …

understanding of growth and inequality in the region. The region has experienced β- and σ-convergence; however, growth rates of per … health can enhance growth rate, whereas the overall revenue expenditure retards growth. Therefore, provinces' capital budgets …

This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach …/04 for state analysis. The results are quite robust and lend support to the general view that poverty in Nigeria has not kept … pace with the rapid economic growth attained in the last decade. The country registered only fewer gains in non …

growth in the 2000s along with a reduction in rural consumption poverty. This paper evaluates the extent to which recent … growth has been accompanied by improvements in multidimensional child welfare using a first-order dominance approach applied …

We adapt the standardized Poverty Line Estimation Analytical Software-PLEASe computer code stream based on Arndt and … Simler's (2010) utility-consistent approach to measuring consumption poverty in order to analyse poverty in Madagascar in … differs from the approach undertaken by the national statistical office to produce the official poverty estimates and how the …

'Regional growth and development in Southern Africa', and consider policy options for escaping economic stagnation. The focus is … on South Africa and South African policies yielding relatively quick dividends in terms of growth and taking the rest of …

This paper aims to decompose the sources of growth in economies in the Southern African region's Common Monetary Area … and in the provinces of South Africa. Decomposition results for the Common Monetary Area reveal that the growth of … from shifts in technology. Countries experiencing input-driven growth in the secondary sector, such as Namibia and Eswatini …