paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to …In many developing countries, there does not exist a time series of nationally repre- sentative household budget or … income surveys, while there often are urban household surveys as well as nationally representative Demographic and Health …

Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but … this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, moderate, and extreme poverty in Ghana …-sectional data. While we find considerable conditional chronic (extreme) poverty rates hovering around 50-60 percent, there is more …

The paper investigates the impact of growth on poverty in Ethiopia by analysing panel data covering 1994-97, a period … of economic recovery driven by peace, good weather, and much improved macroeconomic management. The analysis of poverty … important determinants. The characteristics of households that fell into or escaped from poverty are examined; in addition, the …

the 1990s -- 2. Reform, Growth, and Poverty -- 3. The Wage Labor Market and Inequality in Vietnam -- 4. Household …. An Overview of Economic Growth and Household Welfare in Vietnam in the 1990s -- Part I. Vietnam's Economic Performance in … Economic Reforms: A Tale of Two Regions -- Part II. Poverty Reduction in Vietnam in the 1990s -- 6. The Static and Dynamic …

Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but … this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, moderate, and extreme poverty in Ghana …-sectional data. While we find considerable conditional chronic (extreme) poverty rates hovering around 50-60 percent, there is more …

large reduction in poverty, stemming from significant increases in school enrollment, and a rapid decrease in child … malnutrition. The book uses an unusually rich set of macroeconomic, and household survey data, to examine several topics: the … causes of the economic turnaround, and prospects for future growth; the impact of economic growth on household welfare, as …