Indonesia over a fifteen-year period of sustained high growth followed by rapid contraction. Adopting a â …This paper uses six nationally representative household consumption surveys to develop successive poverty profiles for …€˜cost-of-basic-needs’ approach to poverty determination (an approach particularly suited to measures of absolute poverty), this paper develops price …

We study the impact of growth and growth accelerations on poverty and inequality in Indonesia using a new panel dataset … the economy. We find that growth in non-mining significantly reduces poverty and inequality. In contrast, overall growth … and growth in mining appears to have no effect on poverty and inequality. We also identify growth acceleration episodes …

After many years of relatively slow growth, Tanzania's national accounts data report accelerated aggregate growth since … around 2000. Our analysis shows that there has been somewhat slower growth in private consumption and in sectors such as … poverty over the period, and what poverty reduction there has been has mostly occurred in Dar es Salaam. Indicators of non …

-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty …Ghana is relatively rare among Sub-Saharan African countries in having had sustained positive growth every year since … the mid-1980s. This paper analyses the nature of the growth and then presents an analysis of the evolution of both …