malnutrition together with dramatically high rates of mortality, encountered in Kenya's Lake Victoria territory, is unique for Sub … ; undernutrition ; poverty ; multilevel modeling ; Sub-Saharan Africa …

Poverty and inequality persist in many regions of the developing world. This may be due mainly to an ineffective … targeting of policies to address the root causes of poverty. Sustainable policy interventions are in need of reliable concepts … of poverty and of a thorough understanding of the underlying mechanism that lead to such deprivation. The three essays of …

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. Second, poverty scars: those who have been … poor in the past report lower life satisfaction today, even when out of poverty. Last, the order of poverty spells matters …