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

one gets about trends in the level and inequality of living standards in the UK when using consumption, and when one adds …

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 …

Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to …