Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) to analyze the impact of the profound 1988-92 economic crisis in Peru on infant mortality and … late 1989 and 1990, implying that about 17,000 more children died than would have in the absence of the crisis. The authors … also present suggestive evidence that the crisis affected children's nutritional status. In 1992 children under the age of …

survey (HBS) data show only a modest and statistically insignificant decline in poverty between 1992 and 2001. To assess the … likely trajectory of poverty rates over the course of the period, changes in poverty are simulated using unit-record HBS data … distributional changes observed between the two household surveys. The simulations suggest that following increases in poverty during …

death rates-accounts for 10-30 percent of the developing world's trend rate of "$1 a day" poverty reduction in the 1990s … rates-has had a more than offsetting poverty-increasing effect. The net impact of differential natural population growth … represents 10-50 percent of the trend rate of poverty reduction. …

information for designing poverty-focused interventions. Using Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data, the author investigates …