In an economy with migration, poverty changes are composed of a number of forces, including the income gains and losses … measure the contributions of different migration streams to overall poverty change. An application to Tanzania shows the new … insights that are provided - in particular on the role of migration to secondary towns in poverty reduction. …

paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to …In many developing countries, there does not exist a time series of nationally repre- sentative household budget or … income surveys, while there often are urban household surveys as well as nationally representative Demographic and Health …

Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but … this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, moderate, and extreme poverty in Ghana …-sectional data. While we find considerable conditional chronic (extreme) poverty rates hovering around 50-60 percent, there is more …

Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … rates, as well as mean consumption levels and the entire consumption distribution. Analyzing 22 multi-topic household …