Proxy-means testing is a popular method of poverty targeting with imperfect information. In a now widely-used version …, thus diminishing the impact on poverty. Some methodological changes perform better, with a poverty-quantile method … as well, or almost as well, in reducing poverty. However, even with a budget sufficient to eliminate poverty with full …

, there remains limited substantiation for whether and how open budgeting contributes to reductions in poverty and …

than 20 countries accounting for two-thirds of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this process, the analysis employs … countries as a whole have had pro-poor growth. One-third of the poor population escaped poverty during the studied period, which … is larger than the proportion of the population that fell into poverty in the same period. The region also saw a 9 …

From 2000 to 2014, per capita gross domestic product in Sub-Saharan Africa increased by almost 35 percent in real terms …, despite some bright spots, and poverty reduction was steady but discouragingly slow. This paper argues that ending extreme … poverty will require structural change in agriculture, and in rural African economies more broadly. Drawing on a range of …

, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nepal, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. It was found that for the countries in Africa, road density …

on how prices matter for measuring poverty, particularly in Africa. It draws on a wide literature, much from developed …Measuring poverty requires adjusting nominal consumption (or income) into a real value of consumption, across … of price data and methodologies for indexing. These different approaches can have large impacts on poverty measures and …

This paper is motivated by two stylized facts about poverty in Africa: female-headed households tend to be poorer, and … fared? And what role have they played in Africa's impressive recent aggregate growth and poverty reduction? Using data … poverty has been falling in the aggregate since the 1990s. These facts raise two questions: How have female-headed households …

Africa will be undergoing substantial demographic changes in the coming decades with the rising working age share of … poverty reduction will depend on several factors. The outlook will likely be good if African countries can continue the gains … catch up to other developing countries. If the skill share of Africa's labor supply doubles because of improvements in …

The paper revisits the issue of poverty-specific purchasing power parities (PPPs), using the most recent (2011 …) International Comparison Program (ICP) results. The World Bank's global poverty count uses a common international poverty line … poor. Second, the basket of goods and services used for collecting prices for the ICP is not poverty specific. On the first …