The article examines changes in poverty and sources of change in Zimbabwe between 1990 and 1996. Comparable national survey data are used for both periods. Findings indicate that levels of wellbeing and poverty worsened during the period, although there is some evidence that inequality is lower...

Poverty in Zimbabwe increased significantly during the 1990s, and it increased in all sectors of the economy. In the middle of the decade, more than 60 percent of Zimbabwean households fell below the national poverty line. There are competing reasons for this: some say it was the result of the...

Semi-parametric density reweighting techniques are used to examine sources of change in well-being in Zimbabwe during the first-half of the 1990s. Changes in urban well-being are decomposed into changes in employment propensities, changes in human capital attainment and changes in the structure...

Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Abstract -- Introduction -- 1 Country Overview -- 2 Economic Change and Poverty in the 1990s -- 3 Nonparametric Decompositions -- 4 Parametric Methods -- 5 Conclusions -- APPENDIX A: ICES Data and Deflators -- APPENDIX B: Density-Reweighting...

Poverty in Zimbabwe increased significantly during the 1990s, and it increased in all sectors of the economy. In the middle of the decade, more than 60 percent of Zimbabwean households fell below the national poverty line. There are competing reasons for this: some say it was the result of the...