(1988-2008), we tell the story of this descent into hell from the standpoint of poverty and living standards. In 2008, after … five years of civil war and another episode yet to come (2010-11), the extreme US$1.25 poverty headcount had reached a …

. The paper underscores the principles of the poverty focus of social assistance and presents an overview of existence … evidence of first- and second-order effects of social assistance, particularly in the domains of poverty, education, health and … labour markets. Moreover, the paper highlights the knowledge gaps with regard to the longer-term and gender-specific welfare …

We contribute to the literature on trends in living standards in Tanzania by analysing child welfare using two multi … in the middle. The methodologies also complement each other by providing upper and lower bounds on underlying welfare …

This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach …/04 for state analysis. The results are quite robust and lend support to the general view that poverty in Nigeria has not kept …-income poverty. There was a marginal change of -0.21 in the percentage of the population experiencing acute deprivation between 1999 …

growth in the 2000s along with a reduction in rural consumption poverty. This paper evaluates the extent to which recent … growth has been accompanied by improvements in multidimensional child welfare using a first-order dominance approach applied … do not indicate broad-based welfare advancement at the national, urban, or rural levels, they do suggest progress within …

multidimensional poverty in Zambia in 1996, 2006, and 2010. In addition to evaluating welfare across time and space, we extend the …In this paper, we apply the first-order dominance (FOD) approach to assessing multidimensional welfare to analyse … methodology to evaluate welfare by rural agricultural strata and urban housing cost areas. This modification allows a more …

poverty reduction, in Ghana. By accounting for the potential endogeneity of access to financial services, we show that rural … hunger or extreme poverty, the poor must be allowed to obtain meaningful access to financial services through the design of …

investigates the impact of climate variability on household welfare in the area using a three-period panel data from the Ghana … temperatures found to be significant drivers of improved welfare. The study thus concludes that climate variability negatively … impacts household welfare, agricultural income, and farm revenue, and recommends inter alia households' diversification of …