impact of policy shocks on poverty by linking the model to a household survey. They calibrate the model for Ethiopia and …The authors develop a macroeconomic framework that captures links between aid, public investment, growth, and poverty … should increase to reach the poverty targets of the Millennium Development Goals. …

-round panel data set from northwestern Tanzania they estimate the determinants of a child's nutritional status, including … household income and the presence of nutrition interventions in the community. The results show that better nutrition is …

This paper uses data from eight different consumption questionnaires randomly assigned to 4,000 households in Tanzania … to obtain evidence on the nature of measurement errors in estimates of household consumption. While there are no …

A rather unique panel tracking more than 3,300 individuals from households in rural Kagera, Tanzania during 1991 …/4-2010 shows that about one in two individuals/households who exited poverty did so by transitioning from agriculture into the … rural nonfarm economy or secondary towns. Only one in seven exited poverty by migrating to a large city, although those …

Tanzania. Using longitudinal data on individuals, the authors estimate the impact of migration on consumption growth between …

analysis is based on household survey data from a sample of villages located along the coast of mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar … fishing gear, suggesting that MPA support to these activities in Tanzania has a positive influence on household choice of …Coastal resources in Tanzania have come under increasing pressure over the past three decades, which has led to a …

Although Tanzania experienced relatively rapid growth in per capita GDP in the 1995 2001 period, household budget … distributional changes observed between the two household surveys. The simulations suggest that following increases in poverty during … the economic slowdown of the early 1990s, recent growth in Tanzania has brought a decline in poverty, particularly in …

While self-assessments of welfare have become popular for measuring poverty and estimating welfare effects, the methods … uses specially-designed surveys in three countries, Tajikistan, Guatemala, and Tanzania, to study scale heterogeneity …. Respondents were asked to score stylized vignettes, as well as their own household. Diverse scales are in evidence, casting …

This study applies the cost-of-basic-needs approach to estimate food and total poverty lines for the Brazilian case …. Using detailed data on expenditures from a 2017/18 household budget survey and caloric information from the Brazilian Table … representative group of the population. The preferred results estimate the value of the food poverty line at R$258 (in 2018 urban …

vulnerability as expected poverty and illustrates a methodology to empirically assess household vulnerability using pseudo panel …Considerations of risk and vulnerability are key to understanding the dynamics of poverty. This study conceives …