-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), extreme 1.25 USD poverty headcount had reached a historical … record in poverty, with northern areas deeply impoverished by the partition …

(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 …

head tax), and exogenous poverty-line rules (such as the leveling tax, and some of its possible compromises with the …

geographic or not, can combine to explain persistent poverty in a given area. In this chapter we test the effect of local …

Using a 2006 household survey in Mali, we compare current poverty rates and inequality levels with counterfactual ones … impute a counterfactual income for households currently receiving remittances. We show that remittances reduce poverty rates …

This article investigates the evolution of urban poverty in its various dimensions in Côte d'Ivoire since the eighties …. The robustness of the results is checked using dominance criteria. An econometric analysis of the determinants of poverty … complements the analysis. The study shows that the dynamic of poverty in terms of existence conditions can significantly differ …