Various challenges are thought to render female-headed households (FHHs) vulnerable to poverty in the Arab region. Yet, previous studies have had mixed results and the absence of household panel survey data hinders analysis of poverty dynamics. This paper addresses these challenges by proposing...

This study investigates evidence of measurement errors among households with the highest expenditures in eleven harmonized national household-expenditure surveys from five Arab countries: Egypt 2008, 2010 and 2012, Jordan 2006 and 2010, Palestine 2007, 2010 and 2011, Sudan 2009, and Tunisia 2005...

The Arab region’s notoriously high inequality of wealth stands in stark contrast to the unrelenting poverty aggravated by the onslaught of COVID. In a global perspective, one-third of the 20 most unequal countries today are Arab countries. Since the pre-COVID times, one-half of the 16...

Various challenges are thought to render female-headed households (FHHs) vulnerable to poverty in the Arab region. Yet, previous studies have had mixed results and the absence of household panel survey data hinders analysis of poverty dynamics. This paper addresses these challenges by proposing...

Various challenges are thought to render female-headed households (FHHs) vulnerable to poverty in the Arab region. Yet, previous studies have mixed results and despite the availability of cross-sectional data, the absence of household panel survey data hinders analysis of poverty dynamics. We...