likely effects on poverty, inequality, and economic mobility. While poverty has declined, inequality has remained relatively … high and stable over nearly four decades. In this paper, for the first time, we examine poverty and inequality in a dynamic …. Focusing on the dynamics of poverty, we distinguish between short- and long-term poor and between chronic and transient poverty …

income distributions and national accounts GDP, we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality indices for … African countries for the period 1990-2011. Our findings are as follows. First, African poverty is falling rapidly. Second …, the African countries for which good inequality data exist are set to reach the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) poverty …

newly available household surveys have permitted the estimation of measures of poverty among cotton producers in West and … Central Africa, as well as simulations of the impact that changes in producer prices may have on poverty. …

This paper presents a methodology to measure vulnerability to asset-poverty. Using repeated cross-section data, age … show that expected asset-poverty is a reliable proxy for expected consumption-poverty. Applying the methodology to nine …