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 …

prepared for Ghana and Tanzania. For Ghana, the statistical match combines the Living Standards Survey Round 6 (GLSS6) with the … Ghana Time Use Survey (GTUS) 2009, and for Tanzania it combines the Household Budget Survey (THBS) 2012 with the time … quality of match is high and the synthetic dataset appropriate for the time poverty analysis. …

Spatial poverty comparisons are investigated in three African countries using multidimensional indicators of well …-being. The work is analogous to the univariate stochastic dominance literature in that it seeks poverty orderings that are robust … to the choice of multidimensional poverty lines and indices. In addition, the study seeks to ensure that the comparisons …