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 …

The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition … using two comparable surveys from 1996 and 2004. We measure poverty using income and consumption and contrast the effects of … various poverty lines. Poverty in both periods follows some of the determinants commonly identified in the literature …

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to … poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show first that life … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence …