This volume is a collection of selected studies on poverty and well-being in East Africa. Eleven authors agreed to have … their papers included in this volume. The studies can be grouped into four domains: child poverty and malnutrition, dynamics … and determinants of poverty, multidimensional measures of poverty, and energy-environment-poverty relationships. The core …

identify determinants of chronic and transient poverty in urban Ethiopia using panel data. Descriptive results show that while … a large number of households frequently moved in and out of poverty between the panel periods, many did not move far … above the poverty line and remained vulnerable to falling back into poverty. The Spells approach decomposition indicates …