We investigate the accuracy of ex ante assessments of vulnerability to income poverty using cross-sectional data and … vulnerability predictions is limited even when panel data are used. In part this low accuracy is due to low poverty incidence and … high mobility in and out of poverty. …

It has been argued that the potential gains of community-driven development (CDD) poverty programs are large as these … can foster sustained poverty reduction. However, recent literature shows that community involvement can increase the risk … programs. Using community and household data from the Second Urban Poverty Project in Indonesia, we find robust evidence for …

We investigate the accuracy of ex ante assessments of vulnerability to income poverty using cross-sectional data and … vulnerability predictions is limited even when panel data are used. In part this low accuracy is due to low poverty incidence and … high mobility in and out of poverty. …

We investigate the accuracy of ex ante assessments of vulnerability to poverty using cross-sectional data and panel … vulnerability predictions is limited even when panel data are used. In part this low accuracy is due to low poverty incidence and …

changes affect food poverty. We illustrate our approach using household survey data from Malawi and Uganda. We find that food … poverty is of particular concern in Malawi and Uganda and we find large variations within countries in food poverty. We find …

Movements in and out of poverty are of core interest to both policymakers and economists. Yet the panel data needed to … analyze such movements are rare. In this paper we build on the methodology used to construct poverty maps to show how repeated … cross-sections of household survey data can allow inferences to be made about movements in and out of poverty. We illustrate …

Although empowerment is seen as intrinsically important and instrumentally valuable to escape poverty, there is very …