We use Arndt and Simler's utility-consistent approach to calculating poverty lines to analyse poverty in Ethiopia in … 2000, 2005, and 2011. Poverty reduction was steady but uneven, with gains greatest in urban areas in the first half of the … pattern of persistent improvements, though the large declines in poverty are not entirely supported by the magnitudes of …

safety nets and transfers can play in reducing poverty more rapidly in Tanzania. It presents the potential need and costs, to … strengthen the current system and develop a more unified national program, one which will have a greater impact on poverty levels … at reasonable cost, in line with the Government's poverty reduction strategy, known by the Swahili acronym MKUKUTA. The …

This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income … Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period … regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant …