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

Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … rates, as well as mean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 …

robust and comprehensive tool to evaluate the effect on household welfare of different agricultural policies in Tanzania and …-separable agricultural household models. According to this framework, second-order (or behavioural) effects include a direct (i.e., supply or … consumption and production can bias the final impact on household welfare. The main objective of this study is thus to develop a …

This paper examines empirically the effect of social capital, measured by household membership in community …-based organizations and participation in village life, on the welfare of rural households in Tanzania. Using a database that combines … standard information on household welfare with multidimensional measures of social capital, the paper attempts to address three …

The study investigated the impact of pottery trade in reducing poverty among the Kisi households in Ludewa district … which is located very close to Lake Nyasa..The role of pottery industry in breaking the vicious cycle of poverty among the … liberation in the 1980s fishing is overtaken by pottery industry. The data for calculation of poverty index was collected from …

We estimate the effect of mobile money adoption on consumption smoothing, poverty and human capital investments in … Tanzania. We exploit the rapid expansion of the mobile money agent network between 2010 and 2012 and combine this with … intergenerational transmission of poverty. …

inhabitants. The focus of this paper is on the role of poverty in the impact of floods on households, focusing on both direct … using household survey data. Poorer households are more likely to be affected by floods; directly affected households are …

effective use requires standardized protocols. We refine existing poverty imputation models using 14 multi-topic household … surveys conducted over the past decade in Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam. We find that adding household …Household consumption data are often unavailable, not fully collected, or incomparable over time in poorer countries …