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 …

Hardly any recent study exists that broadly reviews poverty trends over time for Russia. Analyzing the Russian … Longitudinal Monitoring Surveys between 1994 and 2019, we offer an updated review of poverty trends and dynamics for the country … over the past quarter of century. We find that poverty has been steadily decreasing, with most of the poor having a …

. 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 …

Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … surveys conducted over the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 …

points in the poverty headcount as well as a decline of 0.32 points in the Gini coefficient. …

change in income, inequality, and poverty over the 15 year period and investigates the determinants of poverty. It is found …Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality … increased urban poverty. Using a large repeated cross-section household survey data from 1986 to 2000, this study maps out the …

effects of the crisis on the level and the structure of aggregate inequality and poverty using the data of EU-SILC for the … period 2007–2014. The results show that inequality rose but the magnitude of the change varies across indices. The recorded … contribution of disparities between educational groups to aggregate inequality declined while that of disparities between socio …

change in income, inequality, and poverty over the 15 year period and investigates the determinants of poverty. It is found …Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality … increased urban poverty. Using a large repeated cross-section household survey data from 1986 to 2000, this study maps out the …