The literature shows that regional disparities in growth and poverty are often relatively high, that these regional …

, but to a much smaller extent. -- Spatial inequality ; poverty ; multilevel modeling ; decomposition ; Sub-Saharan Africa …

We propose a methodology for comparing poverty over multiple periods across time and space without arbitrarily … aggregating income over various years or relying on arbitrarily specified poverty lines. Following Duclos et al. (2006a), we use … span, as dimensions. We also embed in this framework a new concept of chronic and transient poverty. We illustrate our …