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control of domestic agents. While current poverty impacts of cotton cropping are relatively small, there is high potential for …) for the Mozambique Zambezi Valley cotton concession sub-region to examine the economy-wide impacts and relative changes in … the levels of income poverty of grower and non-grower household groups, following exogenous shocks, such as contract …
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poverty over the period, and what poverty reduction there has been has mostly occurred in Dar es Salaam. Indicators of non …-monetary poverty have gradually improved over the past 20 years but significant differences across the country remain. …
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Poverty-growth elasticities are frequently calculated to provide insight into the inclusiveness of the growth process …. Mathematically, the formula employed to calculate the growth elasticity of poverty leads to lower values for higher initial poverty … and space. Poverty-growth semi-elasticities provide a more robust measure of the responsiveness of poverty to growth. …
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poverty over the period, and what poverty reduction there has been has mostly occurred in Dar es Salaam. Indicators of non …-monetary poverty have gradually improved over the past 20 years but significant differences across the country remain. …
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Measuring poverty remains a complex and contentious issue. This is particularly true in sub-Saharan Africa where … poverty rates are higher, information bases typically weaker, and the underlying determinants of welfare relatively volatile … poverty with focus on the period 2002/03 to 2008/09. The paper contributes in four areas. First, the period in question was …
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Private consumption capabilities form only one facet of comprehensive living standards assessments, but they are an important facet whose measurement should be done well. Measurement is complex due to a multitude of methodological choices, which often interact with imperfect data and a desire...
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We contribute to the literature on trends in living standards in Tanzania by analysing child welfare using two multi-dimensional approaches, first-order dominance (FOD) and Alkire-Foster (AF). Between 1991/92 and 2010, remarkably similar area rankings emerge that suggest a widening gap between...
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We broadly review the challenges encountered and choices made in the national assessments of consumption poverty using … estimates produce qualitatively very similar results. We conclude that the principal conclusions of the poverty assessments are …
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Since 1994, a great deal has been accomplished. We argue that poverty reduction was temporarily sidelined in the 2000s … agriculture and a weather shock, undermined progress in measured consumption poverty. We expect progress in poverty reduction to …
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