Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to …

). For the analysis, the toolbox of pro-poor growth analysis is applied to several educational indicators. We find drastic … rising average attendance, while inequality in completion rates or schooling years increases with rising completion rates or … initial inequality in education. At the regional level, educational progress was generally more pro-poor in Asia and Latin …

Pro-poor growth has been identified as one of the most promising pathways to accelerate poverty reduction in developing … countries. The diagnostic pro-poor growth toolbox has so far focused on the income dimension as well as key non … that take into account the extraordinary importance of agricultural productivity for poverty reduction in developing …

This case study examines to what extent Bolivia has been able to achieve pro-poor growth, what the mechanisms of … achieving (or failing to achieve) pro-poor growth have been, and what options are available to ensure higher rates of pro …-poor growth. The analysis focuses on the period from 1989 to 2003, which spans a time of relatively high growth in the 1990s, and …

Standard growth incidence curves describe how growth episodes impact on the overall income distribution. However …, measuring the pro-poorness of the growth process is complex due to (i) measurement errors and (ii) effect shocks that may hit … the percentiles of the income distribution in different ways. Therefore, standard growth incidence curves may misrepresent …

growth and reductions of child undernutrition in Africa. We do this by pooling all DHS surveys for African countries, control …Despite recent improvements in economic performance, undernutrition rates in Africa appear to have improved much less … for other correlates of undernutrition, and add country-level GDP per capita. We find that increases in GDP per capita are …

-effective way to identify income-poor beneficiaries of targeted anti-poverty programs. However, their usefulness depends on whether …-parametric regression- techniques, we show that the resulting leakage can largely be confined to the non-poor close to the poverty line …. However, simulating the effect on poverty measures of a uniform transfer to beneficiaries across inclusion rates suggests that …

-effective way to identify income-poor beneficiaries of targeted anti-poverty programs. However, their usefulness depends on whether …-parametric regression-techniques, we show that the resulting leakage can largely be confined to the non-poor close to the poverty line …. However, simulating the impact on poverty measures of a uniform transfer to beneficiaries across inclusion rates suggests that …