We estimate the effect of mobile money adoption on consumption smoothing, poverty and human capital investments in … Tanzania. We exploit the rapid expansion of the mobile money agent network between 2010 and 2012 and combine this with … intergenerational transmission of poverty. …

higher levels of poverty. …

Tanzania between 1991 and 2004. The study uses longitudinal data from the Kagera Health and Development Survey. Using the …

. Survey-to-survey imputation has been increasingly employed to address these data gaps for poverty measurement, but its … effective use requires standardized protocols. We refine existing poverty imputation models using 14 multi-topic household … surveys conducted over the past decade in Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam. We find that adding household …

-income countries. Based on a unique randomized survey experiment implemented in Tanzania, this study offers new and rigorous evidence … demonstrating that survey-to-survey imputation can fill consumption data gaps and provide low-cost and reliable poverty estimates …; the choice of base surveys for estimating the imputation model; different poverty lines; and alternative (quarterly or …

Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … surveys conducted over the past decade in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam, we find encouraging …

homes. Over the course of a few months, Kagera - a region in northwestern Tanzania - received more than 500,000 refugees …