This study aims to explore poverty measures, its dynamics and determinants using Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI …) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of … households and that both approaches confirm poverty is mainly transient in rural Ethiopia. However, we find that the trend in …

poverty as a whole. The paper shows that the widely used Shorrocks-Index for decomposing permanent and transitory inequality … can also be acquired to describe poverty. This method overcomes certain difficulties involved in the methods of Rodgers … & Rodgers (1993). The characteristics of the proposed Poverty-Stability-Index allow for an intuitive differentiation between the …

, as it seems to have a substantial quantitative impact on the measurement of poverty. We also suggest that future research …Equivalence Scales are a tool for removing the heterogeneity of household sizes in the measurement of inequality, and … affect poverty assessments and poverty lines. We address the disadvantage that poor households may suffer due to their …

The estimation of the costs of conflict is currently receiving a lot of attention in the literature. This paper aims to … field of conflict cost measurement. -- Conflict ; costs of conflict ; case studies …

receiving welfare payments was about twice as high as the respective share for the entire population. Poverty head count rates … (based on a poverty threshold of 50 percent of median equivalent income) clearly increased over this period from about 10 …

We compare patterns of movements into and out of poverty by children in Britain and Germany using data from the British … Household Panel Survey and the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1992-7. Compared to Germany, in Britain poverty … persistence is greater, and poverty exit rates in particular are lower. In both countries poverty is particularly persistent among …

genuine state dependence in poverty. We also provide estimates of low income transition rates and lengths of poverty and non-poverty …