While recent studies have examined how economic shocks arising from trade competition affect voting results at the aggregate level, we know little about the individual-level mechanisms that bring such effects about. In this contribution, we use long-term individual-level panel data to study the...

This paper investigates the dynamics of poverty in Nigeria across two periods - post-planting and post-harvest seasons. Two poverty levels were used in analyzing the household survey data. The estimated results show that about 82.11 % of the population was categorized as living under US$2/day in...

This study sheds light on the effect that international remittances have on expenditure patterns of urban households in Ethiopia. It makes use of primary household survey data collected in 2013 from four major urban areas - Addis Ababa, Gonder, Hawassa, and Mekelle. It uses the Working-Lesser...