Various challenges are thought to render female-headed households (FHHs) vulnerable to poverty in the Arab region. Yet …, previous studies have mixed results and the absence of household panel survey data hinders analysis of poverty dynamics. We … Tunisia. We find that the definition of FHHs matters for measuring poverty levels and dynamics. Most types of FHHs are less …

Various challenges are thought to render female-headed households (FHHs) vulnerable to poverty in the Arab region. Yet … data hinders analysis of poverty dynamics. We address these challenges by proposing a novel typology of FHHs and analyze …, Iraq, Jordan, Mauritania, Palestine, and Tunisia. We find that the definition of FHHs matters for measuring poverty levels …

Brazil's recent growth has been intensely pro-poor, and both poverty and inequality have declined significantly in the …

effects, particularly among urban households. Per capita consumption fell by 12.6%, raising poverty by 5.5 percentage points … Agatha with respect to the harvest cycle of the main crops. The results are robust to placebo treatments, household migration …, issues of measurement error, and different samples. The negative effects of the storm partly explain the increase in poverty …

poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and … services they need to move up out of poverty. …

engaging children in child labour, can lock households in a low-income equilibrium or poverty trap. Provided that covariate …

distribution and poverty. Since a large percentage of Peruvians living in poverty are located in rural areas, learning more about …This paper describes the results of initial work analysing a panel of rural households in Peru between 1994 and 2004 to … interest was to better understand how household responses to external economic shocks influenced rural welfare, income …