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. …

current macroeconomic trends and describes how the poverty profile could influence policy reforms. …

current macroeconomic trends and describes how the poverty profile could influence policy reforms. …

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 …

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

This paper serves as an introduction and overview for a volume that aims to shed light on the question of “time poverty …” in Sub-Saharan Africa and its relationship with consumption-based measures of poverty, as well as other development … outcomes. Time poverty, especially as seen in the “double workday” of women, has long been a staple of discussion of women …

There are often large regional differences in poverty and other social indicators within a country. But geographic … poverty profiles based on household surveys tend to be limited to broad areas because survey sample sizes are too small to … permit analysts to construct valid estimates of poverty at the local level. At the same time policy makers often need finely …

has translated into substantial poverty reduction according to objective measures based on household survey data. At the … same time, many people do not feel that the poverty situation has been improving in their country or community, and this is … subjective perceptions of poverty trends, and what may explain this divergence? The objective of this short dissemination note is …