Despite the remarkable economic performance of the Philippines in recent years, poverty remains a core policy issue …. And with a relatively young population, the poverty situation concerns largely children who are at the critical stages of … poverty through data collected from national surveys and administrative records of government agencies. The estimations show …

Between 2000 and 2013, Latin America has considerably reduced poverty (from 46.3% to 29.7% of the population). In this …, and 14% of those in the middle-class, experience poverty at least once over a ten-year period. Furthermore, chronic … poverty remains widespread (representing 91% and 50% of extreme and moderate poverty respectively). Differences between rural …

available National Income Dynamics Study data to provide a thorough and up-to-date analysis of poverty dynamics in South Africa … over time. In this paper we show that this dynamic element - the risk of falling into (deeper) poverty and the chances of … moving up - looms large in the economic lives of both the poor and the non-poor in South Africa. We use all five waves of …

poverty as a whole. The paper shows that the widely used Shorrocks-Index for decomposing permanent and transitory inequality … can also be acquired to describe poverty. This method overcomes certain difficulties involved in the methods of Rodgers … & Rodgers (1993). The characteristics of the proposed Poverty-Stability-Index allow for an intuitive differentiation between the …

We analyse the effect of violence and rebellion on the evolution of household welfare. We collected new panel data for … Burundi (1999-2007) in which we reinterviewed original as well as newly formed households (split-offs). We use several … on the effect of civil war, we find that villagelevel violence, measured as the number of battle-related deaths or …