identify determinants of chronic and transient poverty in urban Ethiopia using panel data. Descriptive results show that while … a large number of households frequently moved in and out of poverty between the panel periods, many did not move far … above the poverty line and remained vulnerable to falling back into poverty. The Spells approach decomposition indicates …

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. …

The question of whether 21st-century urbanization dynamics are leading to a suburbanization of poverty in Western city … the spatial analysis of poverty concentrations in Germany. The methods are based on three popular conceptualizations of … poverty: material poverty, relative poverty, and the concept of neighbourhood deprivation. The main novelty presented in this …