This chapter offers a primer on poverty, inequality, and vulnerability analysis and a guide to resources on this topic …. It is written for decision makers who want to define the type of information they need to monitor poverty reduction and … translated from an English version published in the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook. …

poverty over time, but this was mainly due to the adoption of a relative measure of poverty and to comparability issues … between the surveys. The task of assessing the trends in poverty and inequality was also made more difficult because the unit … necessary to estimate poverty and inequality using group data. In this paper, we use the Poverty module of SimSIP in order to …

This chapter offers a primer on poverty, inequality, and vulnerability analysis and a guide to resources on this topic …. It is written for decision makers who want to define the type of information they need to monitor poverty reduction and … translated from an English version published in the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook. …

In order to inform discussions on the extent of poverty in a country, it is often useful to compare the country …’s poverty measures to estimates obtained in other countries with similar levels of development within the same region of the … world. This short dissemination note provides estimates of poverty for countries from the Franc CFA zone and shows how …

, one in three persons living in poverty today might not be poor had it not been for the conflict. …

such data. While the idea of “time poverty” is not new, and while many papers have provided measures of time use and hinted … at the concept of time poverty, we have not seen in the literature formal discussions and measurement of the concept of … time poverty alongside the techniques used for measuring consumption poverty. Conceptually, time poverty can be understood …

-gate prices and export taxes on poverty among cashew producers and in the country as a whole. The chapter also notes that over the …

poverty and inequality of an increase in the working hours of the population up to what is referred to as a full employment … reduction in poverty, even at the relatively low current levels of wages and earnings enjoyed by the population. However, even … at full employment levels, poverty would remain massive, and the higher workload that the full employment scenario would …

growth rates and substantial poverty reduction, with the share of the population living in poverty declining from 67.9 to 57 ….1 percent. Poverty in urban areas was reduced faster than in rural areas, as most of the investment benefited the manufacturing …

This chapter was originally drafted in 2007 to inform the diagnostic of Liberia’s first Poverty Reduction Strategy. It … Statistics and Geo-Information Services. The chapter estimates the level of poverty and vulnerability in the country, provides a … profile of poverty, and analyzes the household level determinants or correlates of consumption and poverty. Slightly less than …