Tracking poverty is predicated on the availability of comparable consumption data and reliable price deflators. However …, regular series of strictly comparable data are only rarely available. Poverty prediction methods that track consumption … tested directly. This study analyses the performance of poverty prediction models based on small area estimation (SAE …

Using 2000-04 panel data this study analyses the pathways rural households followed out of poverty in two lagging … poverty reduction. Income transfers and agricultural tax abolishment have helped at the margin. Overall, the findings … highlight that the scope for reducing poverty in lagging rural regions is often substantial in agriculture, also in countries …

towns from big cities will improve poverty reduction performance. Of course the hypothesis raises many questions. What … versus cities to poverty reduction? What are the economic mechanisms for such a differential contribution and how does policy … poverty are quite complex even in simple settings, and the question of secondary towns and poverty reduction is an open area …

Frequent measurement of poverty is challenging, as measurement often relies on complex and expensive expenditure … questions about the consistency of the poverty-tracking efforts currently applied across countries, since obtaining exhaustive …

"This book examines the main factors behind observed poverty changes in eight countries - Ethiopia, Ghana, Madagascar …, Mauritania, Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. After reviewing the trends in income poverty and other, more direct measures … growth and poverty, which lead to some groups gaining from episodes of economic growth and others being left behind. Growth …