Reducing poverty and inequality and promoting inclusive growth are fundamental to achieving the United Nations … evaluation of the main stylized facts concerning poverty, inequality, and growth. It will uncover existing trends, put …

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 declined substantially in Mozambique between 1996/97 and 2014/15. However, the recent economic crisis …, characterized by a significant increase in domestic prices, may have dragged several households into poverty. Using consumer price …' real consumption and poverty rate. We estimate that the national poverty rate may have risen to 55-60 per cent of the …

Mozambique on household consumption poverty. To predict changes in income and the associated effects on poverty and inequality … two main impact channels are at work leading to higher consumption poverty: direct income/wage and employment losses. To … consumption and poverty. Our simulations suggest that consumption decreased by between 7.1 and 14.4 per cent, and that poverty …

gains in some indicators, multidimensional child poverty in Mozambique still substantially exceeds that in neighbouring … and poverty reduction experienced by the population as a whole translate into better living conditions for children. …

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. …

Mozambique experienced important reduction in the poverty rate until recently, before two major natural disasters hit … national household expenditure survey is from 2014/15, just before these crises unfolded, there is need for a poverty … study the evolution of multidimensional poverty in Mozambique using the Demographic and Health Surveys/Malaria Indicator …

-sectional household budget surveys for the same country. We find that in most analyses poverty rates and poverty transitions estimated … to intra-year poverty dynamics, we find that Mozambique has a high intra-year variability in consumption and poverty, and … a very high degree of intra-year poverty immobility, with a big portion of the population remaining either in poverty or …

The poverty mapping methodology for estimating welfare rankings from small areas has proven to be useful in guiding … allocation of government funds, regional planning, and general policy formulation. Nevertheless, poverty mapping also suffers … for, and/or extension of the poverty mapping methodology. Second, it directly uses census data with a minimum of …