1990 and the effects on poverty. To produce comparability between two household surveys, they use survey matching …The authors estimate changes in the distribution of household consumption expenditure in Namibia since Independence in … significant decrease in the poverty headcount over the period and small but insignificant decreases in the country's extremely …

economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight … poverty and inequality. …

examine the pre- and post-privatisation periods. Close inspection of the household surveys reveals that access to water by low …

This paper studies income poverty among the 50+ population in 10 EU countries using newly collected data from the SHARE … (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) project. A measure of the household's disposable annual income is used …. Relative income poverty range from 10 percent (in Sweden) to 22 percent (in Switzerland). Logistic regression estimates show …

Uncertainty and unpredictability faced by low-income households increase their vulnerability making poverty even more … as a way of combating poverty. This paper investigates whether or not SHG participation results in reducing poverty and …. Going beyond the traditional poverty estimates, we use a vulnerability measure which quantifies the welfare loss associated …

of recipients. I then discuss empirical work on the effects of the EITC on poverty and income distribution, and its …

positive average effects on employment, earnings, and income, and generally negative effects on poverty rates, although the …

traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and, to a … lesser degree, education of the household head and dwelling characteristics. …