more likely to be alive than the poor's mothers. Using panel data set for Indonesia and Vietnam, we also find that older …

The recent financial crisis in Indonesia has resulted in dramatic price increases. Using very recent data, we …

Human capital, including health and nutrition, has played a key role in the literature on poverty traps. Economic … and, thereby, push individuals into poverty. Three potential concerns in this literature are explored with empirical … evidence drawn from primary longitudinal survey data collected before and after two major shocks in Indonesia: the 1998 …

-to-hide assets is used to predict consumption, and community-based targeting, where villagers rank everyone on a scale from richest … to poorest. When poverty is defined using per-capita expenditure and the common PPP$2 per day threshold, we find that … community-based targeting performs worse in identifying the poor than proxy-means tests, particularly near the threshold. This …