high levels of inequality. Decomposition analysis shows that poverty reduction in Namibia is largely driven by growth in …. -- Sub-Saharan Africa ; Namibia ; poverty ; inequality …The authors estimate changes in the distribution of household consumption expenditure in Namibia since Independence in …

We study inter-temporal changes in poverty for Germany from year 1978 to 2003, and we employ the bootstrap method to … test for statistical significance of results. All results are decomposed by household type and region. Poverty estimates … are particularly high for single parents. Most striking, however, is the poverty divide between the old and newly …