Tracking poverty is predicated on the availability of comparable consumption data and reliable price deflators. However …, regular series of strictly comparable data are only rarely available. Poverty prediction methods that track consumption … tested directly. This study analyses the performance of poverty prediction models based on small area estimation (SAE …

Using 2000-04 panel data this study analyses the pathways rural households followed out of poverty in two lagging … poverty reduction. Income transfers and agricultural tax abolishment have helped at the margin. Overall, the findings … highlight that the scope for reducing poverty in lagging rural regions is often substantial in agriculture, also in countries …

poverty, as opposed to growth alone. The contribution of a sector to poverty reduction is shown to depend on its own growth … evidence indicates that agriculture is significantly more effective than non-agriculture in reducing poverty among the poorest … of the poor (as reflected in the $1-day squared poverty gap). It is also up to 3.2 times better at reducing $1-day …

poverty regularly. This paper develops an economically intuitive and inexpensive methodology to do so in the absence of …

The relative contribution of a sector to poverty reduction is shown to depend on its direct and indirect growth effects …-agriculture by reviewing the literature and by analyzing cross-country national accounts and poverty data from household surveys …. Special attention is given to Sub-Saharan Africa. While the direct growth effect of agriculture on poverty reduction is likely …

middle (the rural nonfarm economy and secondary towns) yields more inclusive growth patterns and faster poverty reduction … for faster poverty reduction. …

the 1990s. They draw on the findings of a series of studies on poverty dynamics that use the better data sets now … available. The authors begin by taking a broad view of poverty, tracing changes in both income poverty and in other more direct … measures of individual welfare. Experiences have been varied: several countries have seen a sharp decline in poverty, while …