According to western views, wealth is unambiguously good, and so human welfare is positive when wealth is in excess of … needs, and negative if it is less. Islam has a substantially more sophisticated view of the relation between wealth and … welfare. Excess wealth is a trial, which can bring great rewards if utilized correctly, and also bring great harm if utilized …

, conceptual and empirical contributions which address relevant areas that enhance extant knowledge on linkages between poverty …

paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … income surveys, while there often are urban household surveys as well as nationally representative Demographic and Health … Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality …

We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making … possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the … world. The current benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates of monthly real consumption and income for every …

We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making … possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the … world. The current benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates of monthly real consumption and income for every …

We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making … possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the … world. The benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates of monthly real consumption and income for every percentile …

Since 1994, a great deal has been accomplished. We argue that poverty reduction was temporarily sidelined in the 2000s … agriculture and a weather shock, undermined progress in measured consumption poverty. We expect progress in poverty reduction to …

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 …

We use Arndt and Simler's (2010) utility-consistent approach to calculating poverty lines to analyse poverty in … national poverty rising from 56.3 per cent in 2001 to 59.6 per cent in 2005, and to 61.4 per cent in 2010, are not necessarily … indicative of a trend of persistently rising poverty. Complementary data indicate that in the time periods between the shocks …