Ghana is relatively rare among Sub-Saharan African countries in having had sustained positive growth every year since … consumption poverty and non-monetary poverty outcomes over this period, showing improvements in almost all indicators over this …-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty …

poverty and inequality. We find that the epidemic lowers average income and increases poverty, and that the jump in poverty is … larger than expected from the fall in average income. This disproportionate increase in poverty reflects the large share of … the population living on the threshold of poverty and the higher HIV prevalence rates in those segments of the population …

poverty over the period, and what poverty reduction there has been has mostly occurred in Dar es Salaam. Indicators of non …-monetary poverty have gradually improved over the past 20 years but significant differences across the country remain. …

The study examines the nature and extent of time poverty experienced by men and women in subsistence households in …% of men face time constraints. Women's time poverty worsens when the burden of simultaneous care work is taken into … determinants of time poverty show that measures of bargaining power like assets and education do not necessarily affect time …

(1988-2008), we tell the story of this descent into hell from the standpoint of poverty and living standards. In 2008, after … five years of civil war and another episode yet to come (2010-11), the extreme US$1.25 poverty headcount had reached a …

Official poverty figures in Uganda are flawed by the fact that the underlying poverty lines are based on a single … national food basket that was constructed in the early 1990s. In this paper, we estimate a new set of poverty lines that … poverty lines, we then look at poverty dynamics using four waves of the Uganda National Panel Survey. We classify households …