-year interval (2003 and 2004) to explore the major determinants of the transition out of/into poverty of rural households. Poverty … status is measured in the asset space, thus indicating structural rather than transitory poverty movements. The empirical … have no positive impact on poverty levels, nor on mobility out of poverty. Second, the rate of increase in the share of …

We develop an approach for making welfare comparisons between populations with multidimensional discrete well …

We examine returns to entrepreneurship using a standard measure of welfare, the per capita consumption xpenditure …. Using quantile regressions, we find welfare hierarchy in occupations. The results suggest that, across the welfare …, self-employment entails higher returns than casual labour and an escape from poverty. …