impacts of migration on household earnings, consumption, and risk of falling into poverty within rural communities. The paper …

contributed to a dramatic drop — from 37 percent to 13 percent — in the global extreme poverty rate between 1990 and 201. However … productivity growth and consequent lower savings and investment on key price and income variables. The productivity shocks are … the slowdown on the real household incomes of the poor, and hence on the poverty rate. The results suggest that the …

This paper examines growth, poverty and chronic poverty in 15 Ethiopian villages between 1994 and 2004. Growth and … poverty reduction in these communities was substantial; headcount poverty fell from 48 to 35 percent. However, there is also … movement in and out of poverty over this period and a significant proportion of the sample was chronically poor. Chronic …

This paper studies the process of growth, poverty and poverty persistence in a panel data set covering 15 communities … across rural Ethiopia 1994-2004. It describes growth and the evolution of poverty, illustrating both considerable growth and … poverty reduction. It highlights the presence of ‘chronic’ poverty, people that appear poor relatively persistently in the …

group, are particularly reliant on agriculture. In summarising key findings on agricultural growth and poverty reduction … from country studies commissioned by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC), this paper suggests that agricultural … growth has been a surprisingly important component of poverty exits, and also finds evidence that agricultural growth helps …