is evidence about real income levels and inequality, and the prevalence of affluence and of poverty. …

We use Arndt and Simler's utility-consistent approach to calculating poverty lines to analyse poverty in Ethiopia in … 2000, 2005, and 2011. Poverty reduction was steady but uneven, with gains greatest in urban areas in the first half of the … pattern of persistent improvements, though the large declines in poverty are not entirely supported by the magnitudes of …

subsidy program, failed to significantly reduce poverty in Malawi. Official estimates for 2011 showed a 1.7 percentage point … decline in national poverty between 2005 and 2011, while rural poverty increased marginally. In this study we estimate an … alternative set of regional poverty lines using a cost of basic needs method that allows the consumption bundle to vary spatially …

We use Arndt and Simler's (2010) utility-consistent approach to calculating poverty lines to analyse poverty in … national poverty rising from 56.3 per cent in 2001 to 59.6 per cent in 2005, and to 61.4 per cent in 2010, are not necessarily … indicative of a trend of persistently rising poverty. Complementary data indicate that in the time periods between the shocks …