Households in developing countries are frequently hit by severe idiosyncratic and covariate shocks resulting in high consumption volatility. A household's currently observed poverty status might therefore not be a good indicator of the household's general poverty risk, or in other words its...

Based on a statistical procedure that combines household survey data with population census data, this paper presents estimates of inequality for three developing countries at a level of disaggregation far below that allowed by household surveys alone. We show that while the share of...

This paper implements a methodology for estimating poverty in Ecuador, Madagascar and South Africa, at levels of disaggregation that to date have not generally been available. The methodology is based on a statistical procedure to combine household survey data with population census data,...

Ursprünglich sollte diese Studie eine vorwiegend empirische Bestandsaufnahme des soziokulturellen Strukturwandels und des touristisch induzierten Wandels auf der Mikroebene der Insel S.te Marie vermitteln - eine weitreichende Sichtung der theoretischen Forschung hat jedoch die Bedeutung einer...