Millennium Development Goal #1 is to halve extreme poverty ($1/day per person) and hunger. Progress toward this goal … health, malnutrition and ultra-poverty are mutually reinforcing states that add to the challenge of addressing any one of … of the ultra-poor. The causal mechanisms underpinning the poverty trap in which ultra-poor, unhealthy and undernourished …

current research focuses on improving food insecurity measurement. Yet estimated prevalence rates and patterns remain tenuous …

Longitudinal data on household living standards open the way to a deeper analysis of the nature and extent of poverty … expenditure poverty, this paper develops an asset-based approach to poverty analysis that makes it possible to distinguish deep …-rooted, persistent structural poverty from poverty that passes naturally with time due to systemic growth processes. Drawing on the …