Since 1994, a great deal has been accomplished. We argue that poverty reduction was temporarily sidelined in the 2000s … agriculture and a weather shock, undermined progress in measured consumption poverty. We expect progress in poverty reduction to …

We broadly review the challenges encountered and choices made in the national assessments of consumption poverty using … estimates produce qualitatively very similar results. We conclude that the principal conclusions of the poverty assessments are …

poverty over the period, and what poverty reduction there has been has mostly occurred in Dar es Salaam. Indicators of non …-monetary poverty have gradually improved over the past 20 years but significant differences across the country remain. …

Measuring poverty remains a complex and contentious issue. This is particularly true in sub-Saharan Africa where … poverty rates are higher, information bases typically weaker, and the underlying determinants of welfare relatively volatile … poverty with focus on the period 2002/03 to 2008/09. The paper contributes in four areas. First, the period in question was …

We explore a novel first order dominance (FOD) approach to poverty mapping and compare its properties to small area … conclude that the FOD approach to poverty mapping constitutes a useful addition to the toolkit of policy analysts. …