We develop a poverty decomposition method that is based on a consumption regression model. Because this method uses an … integral of the partial derivatives of a poverty measure with respect to time, the resulting poverty decomposition satisfies … time-reversion consistency and sub-period additivity. Unlike the existing poverty decomposition methods, it allows us to …

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. …

uniform approach to poverty assessment based on basic human capabilities for three countries: Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Vietnam …We argue that inter-country comparisons of income poverty based on poverty lines uniformly reflecting the costs of the …. We compute standard errors of the resulting poverty estimates and compare the incidence of poverty across these three …