people at the lower end of income distribution will graduate into the middle class category. The increase in poverty rates …

, the percentage of registered workers, and labour earnings increased; and all poverty and inequality indicators decreased …

employment composition by occupation and position; a substantial fall in labour earnings; and no progress in reducing poverty …

indicators that were not affected negatively by the economic crisis were labour earnings, the poverty indices, and household per …

poverty over the period, and what poverty reduction there has been has mostly occurred in Dar es Salaam. Indicators of non …-monetary poverty have gradually improved over the past 20 years but significant differences across the country remain. …

by the crisis, and the majority of them had not recovered their pre-crisis levels by 2012. Poverty has been rising …

labour earnings went up. At the same time, poverty and inequality largely diminished. The international economic crisis had a …

This paper decomposes differences between the official poverty estimates of Malawi and a set of revised estimates by … conversion factors; (ii) the specification and use of regional poverty lines as opposed to a single national poverty line; (iii …) the use of implicit survey-based prices rather than external price data; (iv) estimation of food separate poverty lines in …

This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth … deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the outcomes were compared to the incidence of income poverty. The analyses reveal … areas; and differences in regional rankings of deprivation and income poverty. Distinct policies for child deprivation and …