and Health Surveys for five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) to design …

The effect of demographics on poverty measurement based on per capita consumption is well known. The size and … household. Failure to address this issue may often lead to an underestimation or overestimation of poverty, especially for … structures and choice of the pivot household for establishing the per capita poverty line. Based on the World Bank's African …

-Saharan Africa; these changes went undetected by standard inequality measures. By developing a new decomposition technique based on a … distribution, and this distributional change lowered the pro-poor impact of growth substantially. Without this change, poverty …