poverty regularly. This paper develops an economically intuitive and inexpensive methodology to do so in the absence of … methodology is illustrated using a series of Demographic Health Surveys from Kenya …

Considerations of risk and vulnerability are key to understanding the dynamics of poverty. This study conceives … vulnerability as expected poverty and illustrates a methodology to empirically assess household vulnerability using pseudo panel … to data from rural Kenya shows that in 1994 rural households faced on average a 40 percent chance of becoming poor in the …

metropolitan areas, the analysis focuses on Kenya, which has made significant strides in financial inclusion and development in …

This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for women … in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would … have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila sector not existed. Of this increase in poverty, 0.35 percentage …

question of gender and youth deprivation in the context of the Moroccan labor market. They find that the reference group (the …

At the outset of China's reform period, the country had a far higher poverty rate than for Africa as a whole. Within … five years that was no longer true. This paper tries to explain how China escaped from a situation in which extreme poverty …

poverty reduction. The authors use a sample of 104 short-run growth spells in developing countries, between 1980 and 2001 … of growth does not matter for poverty reduction any more than the aggregate productivity intensity of growth, the … is associated with decreases in poverty, while employment-intensive growth in agriculture is correlated with poverty …

connected poverty trends. The main focus of the authors is understanding, for the case of Brazil, how a trade shock interacts … with these structural forces and ascertaining whether it enhances or hinders medium-term poverty reduction. In particular …, they consider the interactions between the migration of labor out of agriculture, a potentially important poverty reduction …