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We explore how to measure poverty over time, by focusing on trajectories of poverty rather than poverty at a particular … characterization of desirable properties for measuring poverty across these spells, as well as an explicit discussion of three issues … vulnerability, defined as the threat of poverty over time, that incorporates risk. An application to data from Ethiopia shows that …
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Standard poverty analysis makes statements about deprivation after the veil of uncertainty has been lifted. Nonetheless … `vulnerability to poverty` as the magnitude of the threat of poverty, measured ex-ante, before uncertainty is resolved. We describe …
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We explore how to measure poverty over time, by focusing on trajectories of poverty rather than poverty at a particular … characterization of desirable properties for measuring poverty across these spells, as well as an explicit discussion of three issues … vulnerability, defined as the threat of poverty over time, that incorporates risk. An application to data from Ethiopia shows that …
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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 …
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poverty eradication made by the International Community in the UN Millennium Declaration. They include halving world poverty … levels alike – which is conducive to development and the elimination of poverty.” The developed countries had to ease market …
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