(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 …

This paper seeks to measure and explain changes in incomes, inequality, and poverty in Kenya. It starts from a very … income, inequality and poverty over time, and to explain why they evolved in the way they did. We relate changes in … inequality and poverty to changes in factor endowments and changes in economic and employment structures. We also provide some …

Growth improved substantially in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) since 1990, but poverty in SSA as a whole … or no success in reducing poverty, many have had significant achievements. The paper argues that inter … into poverty reduction. Since the 1990s (when poverty data are available) the distinction in terms of poverty reduction can …

We contribute to the literature on trends in living standards in Tanzania by analysing child welfare using two multi … in the middle. The methodologies also complement each other by providing upper and lower bounds on underlying welfare …

Understanding poverty dynamics is crucial to target and tailor economic policies in developing countries like Nigeria … – a country at the risk of hosting about a quarter of all people living in poverty worldwide. To facilitate the targeting … of poverty-reducing interventions, we build a nationally representative panel dataset with more than a hundred covariates …

Poverty in Africa is primarily rural concentrated, about 75% of the poor population live in rural areas and draws their … extreme poverty, with the Eastern and Southern Africa having the world’s highest concentrations of poor people. The renewed … focus on the poverty reducing potential of agricultural productivity accentuate from the fact that the incidence of poverty …

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. …

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 …

migration and multidimensional poverty by applying inverse probability weighted regression adjustment (IPWRA). We find that …

Since 1994, a great deal has been accomplished. We argue that poverty reduction was temporarily sidelined in the 2000s … agriculture and a weather shock, undermined progress in measured consumption poverty. We expect progress in poverty reduction to …