less on selling household assets or livestock to cope with drought. In Burkina Faso and Ghana, international remittance …

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 …

While self-assessments of welfare have become popular for measuring poverty and estimating welfare effects, the methods … considerable doubt on the meaning of widely-used summary measures such as subjective poverty rates. Nonetheless, under the … poverty and welfare …

This paper analyzes to what extent, and under what conditions, an increase in household wealth affects the use of child … program transfers wealth to poor families in rural areas, conditional on children's school attendance and health check-ups. In … addition, for one third of the beneficiaries, there is a further wealth transfer to start a non-agricultural business. The …

and poverty levels, as well as to the misclassification of some individuals as regards to their poverty status. Using a … overall poverty rate, but individual poverty statuses are affected. Intra-household consumption inequalities accounts for 14 … intra-household inequality and individual risk of poverty …

rounds of Living Standards Measurement Study surveys from Malawi, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Ghana to construct indices …, perform well in urban settings. Yet, in rural samples and when identifying the extreme poor, household rankings and poverty …

, the poverty rate, or the incidence of regular wage employment. The results suggest that the highways caused an increase in …

typically limited. That prevents administering the lengthy household consumption expenditure surveys used for measuring poverty …. This paper presents a new approach to obtain unbiased estimates of poverty when the time to conduct interviews is a binding …, the approach is demonstrated to yield reliable estimates of per capita consumption and poverty using data from a regular …

effects, particularly among urban households. Per capita consumption fell by 12.6 percent, raising poverty by 5.5 percentage … partly explain the increase in poverty seen in urban Guatemala between 2006 and 2011, which national authorities and analysts …

Although resilience has become a popular concept in studies of poverty and vulnerability, it has been difficult to …