Since 1994, a great deal has been accomplished. We argue that poverty reduction was temporarily sidelined in the 2000s …. A series of shocks, especially the fuel and food price crisis of 2008, combined with poor productivity growth in … agriculture and a weather shock, undermined progress in measured consumption poverty. We expect progress in poverty reduction to …

A considerable part of the poverty that is measured in a single period is transitory rather than persistent. In most … into and out of poverty should be the main focus of anti-poverty policies. Understanding the characteristics of the … persistently poor, and the circumstances and mechanisms associated with entry into and exit from poverty, can help to inform …

This paper assesses multidimensional poverty in Sudan and South Sudan. We use the National Baseline Household Surveys …-population differences in the unidimensional and multidimensional poverty status of people in Sudan and South Sudan. Poverty in Sudan is … generally less severe than in South Sudan, with a pattern showing (i) lesser unidimensional incidence of poverty; (ii) lower …

We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …

We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …

We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …

assess their well-being in the period 1995-2011. Our findings show that if economic growth is pro-poor and inclusive, more … people at the lower end of income distribution will graduate into the middle class category. The increase in poverty rates … and decline in the size of the middle class since 2005 indicates that the growth process in Egypt was anti-poor and anti …

-units) on inequality and poverty statistics using Irish microdata. We find that benchmark equivalence scales result in … substantial variation in the degree of income poverty estimated at the household level, particularly for young children and the … children, Irish income poverty rates in 2019 ranged from 15.0 per cent to 19.5 per cent - most of this variation is …

addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …