We analyse the effect of violence and rebellion on the evolution of household welfare. We collected new panel data for … Burundi (1999-2007) in which we reinterviewed original as well as newly formed households (split-offs). We use several … on the effect of civil war, we find that villagelevel violence, measured as the number of battle-related deaths or …

Between 2000 and 2013, Latin America has considerably reduced poverty (from 46.3% to 29.7% of the population). In this …, and 14% of those in the middle-class, experience poverty at least once over a ten-year period. Furthermore, chronic … poverty remains widespread (representing 91% and 50% of extreme and moderate poverty respectively). Differences between rural …

This paper gives a selected review of some of the work on poverty mobility, largely based on recent research. The … allow movement out of poverty. For urban areas, location and access to particular types of jobs appears to matter. The paper … revisits this evidence. However, in analyzing poverty mobility, it is not self-evident to move from describing the correlates …

This paper focuses on poverty dynamics and their determinants, using panel survey data for rural Sindh, Pakistan …

Despite the remarkable economic performance of the Philippines in recent years, poverty remains a core policy issue …. And with a relatively young population, the poverty situation concerns largely children who are at the critical stages of … poverty through data collected from national surveys and administrative records of government agencies. The estimations show …

the macroeconomic mechanisms of poverty and deprivation, we propose a composite poverty index that captures seven …This study aims at providing a positive contribution to the literature on the macroeconomic determinants of poverty … deprivation dimensions which, relying on the literature and data availability, are important to a comparative assessment of …

analysis of the level of deprivation and pay less attention to income poverty and inequality. Because we consider deprivation … poverty but performs less well in equalising levels of deprivation. The results also show that the immature Southern welfare … deprivation levels the results are different and it appears that the Social-Democratic welfare state is good in preventing income …

we re-interviewed original as well as newly formed households (split-offs), we show that headcount poverty decreased by 3 ….5 % points when split-off households are taken into account and 1% when splits are left out. Poverty is persistent while … consumption growth by 13%. We also find that violence afflicted on household members decreases growth whereas membership of rebel …