inhabitants. The focus of this paper is on the role of poverty in the impact of floods on households, focusing on both direct …

urbanization may well bear on the speed of poverty reduction. This paper reviews the latter question within the context of Tanzania …. It starts from the observation that migration to towns contributed much more to poverty reduction than migration to … cities because many more (poor) rural migrants ended up in Tanzania's towns than its cities, despite larger welfare gains …

This study carries out a thorough investigation of the potential sources of mismatch in poverty and inequality levels … and trends between the Tanzania National Panel Survey and Household Budget Survey. The main findings of the study include … the following. First, the difference in poverty levels between the Household Budget Survey and the National Panel Survey …

rounds of Living Standards Measurement Study surveys from Malawi, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Ghana to construct indices …, perform well in urban settings. Yet, in rural samples and when identifying the extreme poor, household rankings and poverty …

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