The aim of this paper is to assess the possible impacts of the Doha Round of negotiations on poverty in Cameroon …. During the recent period of economic recovery, Cameroon has enjoyed a sharp decline in poverty with the headcount index … model which involves 10,992 households in order to address this question. The Doha Round is found to be poverty reducing for …

This paper provides new empirical insights on the joint distribution of consumption, income, and wealth in three of the … that while income inequality is similar to that of the United States (US), wealth inequality is barely one-third that of … SSA as in the US, the share of total wealth accumulated by the income-rich in SSA is one-fifth of its US counterpart. The …

Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad … consumption data. This result is robust to different poverty lines, sets of regressors, and modeling assumptions of the error term …

by investigating the link between internal displacement and multidimensional poverty, using one of the most comprehensive … household surveys for poverty analysis in Iraq. The results show crucial differences between internally displaced and non …-displaced households with respect to multidimensional poverty. Furthermore, instrumental variable regression analysis suggests that the …

income poverty rates among refugees with a gender lens. It finds distinguishing between different types of male and female … principal applicant (PA) households is important in the setting of Syrian refugees in Jordan. Poverty rates for couples with … collected by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to register refugees with data from its Home Visit surveys to analyze …

southeastern regions, these refugees now reside throughout the country. There are many questions from policy makers regarding the … migrants on regional host communities from a poverty perspective. The paper does not find any negative impacts on poverty for … poverty rates experienced among the recent migrants …

income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper offers a first attempt to measure poverty among refugees using cross … measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly in relation to the measurement of …-survey imputations and administrative and survey data collected by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Jordan. Employing …

and the Unemployment and Employment Survey in Jordan are quite encouraging, with imputation-based poverty estimates …Obtaining consistent estimates on poverty over time as well as monitoring poverty trends on a timely basis is a … priority concern for policy makers. However, these objectives are not readily achieved in practice when household consumption …