Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … rates, as well as mean consumption levels and the entire consumption distribution. Analyzing 22 multi-topic household …

novel results. From a theoretical point of view, for any given transfer size, there is a critical level of household income … household might improve cash transfer effectiveness. …

Employment helps reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of a … conditional cash transfer (CCT) program to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor supply …

Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but … this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, moderate, and extreme poverty in Ghana …-sectional data. While we find considerable conditional chronic (extreme) poverty rates hovering around 50-60 percent, there is more …

Using a four-round panel data set from the first phase of the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction …-term impact on food security, household savings, assets and participation in microfinance. Participant women are less likely to be …

household surveys from 162 countries covering 98 percent of the population estimated to be in extreme poverty in 2017. We … income not by household size but by the square-root of household size. While the regional profile of extreme poverty is …Estimates of the number of people living in extreme poverty, as reported by the World Bank, figure prominently in …

This paper estimates the impacts of mobile broadband coverage on household consumption and poverty in Nigeria, the … nationally representative longitudinal household survey on living standards with information from Nigerian mobile operators on … coverage had large and positive impacts on household consumption levels which increased over time, although at a decreasing …

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 …Household consumption data are often unavailable, not fully collected, or incomparable over time in poorer countries …

the factors contributing to poverty is essential for effective, targeted policy initiatives in Nigeria. Investigating the … potential relationship between land access and household poverty-related outcomes is highly relevant for both land and social … welfare policy and is the focus of our paper. Using data from the four waves of the Nigeria General Household Panel Survey …