This paper assesses the reliability of poverty maps derived from remote-sensing data. Employing data for Malawi, it … first obtains small area estimates of poverty by combining household expenditure survey data with population census data. It … then ignores the population census and obtains a second poverty map by combining the survey with predictors of poverty …

multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with …

This paper implements a methodology for estimating poverty in Ecuador, Madagascar and South Africa, at levels of … so on. Yet the paper demonstrates that in all three countries the poverty estimates produced from census data are both …

by falling poverty and fairly stable, or even declining, income inequality. Subsequently, from about the mid-1970s … onwards, a cumulative process of non-farm diversification took hold, and was accompanied by further growth and poverty decline … growth in inequality and has played a particularly pronounced role in reducing poverty. …

positive than one might have hoped. While per capita incomes have risen and poverty has declined, progress has been painfully …