This study investigates the impact of the gender of the household head on the determinants of monetary poverty in the Republic of Benin using data collected during the 1999 living standards measurement survey in the country's rural and urban areas. The results show that there has not been any...

This note extends the Ravallion and Huppi (1991) aggregate poverty change decomposition, to account for the distinct contribution of migration and differential natural population growth between sectors to the aggregate poverty change. We apply our decomposition to three LDCs. We find that...

In this study we construct a composite index from a set of non monetary household's living conditions indicators (WBCI) in order to analyze the evolution of poverty and inequality in Tunisia between 1988 and 2001 in a multidimensional perspective. We show that poverty has been a significant...