Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to …

). For the analysis, the toolbox of pro-poor growth analysis is applied to several educational indicators. We find drastic … rising average attendance, while inequality in completion rates or schooling years increases with rising completion rates or … initial inequality in education. At the regional level, educational progress was generally more pro-poor in Asia and Latin …

Pro-poor growth has been identified as one of the most promising pathways to accelerate poverty reduction in developing … countries. The diagnostic pro-poor growth toolbox has so far focused on the income dimension as well as key non … that take into account the extraordinary importance of agricultural productivity for poverty reduction in developing …

Standard growth incidence curves describe how growth episodes impact on the overall income distribution. However …, measuring the pro-poorness of the growth process is complex due to (i) measurement errors and (ii) effect shocks that may hit … the percentiles of the income distribution in different ways. Therefore, standard growth incidence curves may misrepresent …

poverty line, expressed in PPP-adjusted dollars and linked to various rounds of the International Comparison of Prices (ICP …; they also roughly confirm the current shape of the proposed "weakly relative" poverty line. Using the new absolute line … using 2011 PPPs would lead to substantially lower poverty in our estimation. The extent of the decline depends on whether …

role. We also find four types of poverty traps, associated with large initial household size, poor initial education, poor …

pulls many households supporting them into poverty. We also show that the household formation responses draw some unemployed …

members pulls many households supporting them into poverty. We also show that the household formation responses draw some …

from this safety net, and the presence of unemployed members pulls many households supporting them into poverty. We also …