Understanding poverty dynamics is crucial to target and tailor economic policies in developing countries like Nigeria … – a country at the risk of hosting about a quarter of all people living in poverty worldwide. To facilitate the targeting … of poverty-reducing interventions, we build a nationally representative panel dataset with more than a hundred covariates …

inform policy by complementing the analysis of standard macro-level measures of inequality and poverty with a household …-level analysis of subjective perceptions of poverty. We find that many more people appear to feel poor than are classified as such …

Anti-poverty policies often aim to reach poor individuals by targeting poor households. However, intra … individual-level poverty rates that account for intra-household inequality. We show that women, children, and the elderly face … significant probabilities of living in poverty even in households with per-capita expenditure above the poverty threshold …

We analyze the causal effect of parental education on the potential mismatch between child monetary poverty and … between household monetary resources and parental education causes a mismatch. Indeed, a match between poverty and deprivation …

This paper examines the role of multinationals and international business in poverty alleviation, based on an analysis … that maps and disentangles the impact of different types of international business activities on five dimensions of poverty … poverty is still unclear overall, we contribute to research and policy debates by identifying key insights from and main gaps …

This study aims to explore poverty measures, its dynamics and determinants using Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI …) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of … households and that both approaches confirm poverty is mainly transient in rural Ethiopia. However, we find that the trend in …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference … differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on …

risk and uncertainty are key to understand the dynamics leading to and perpetuating poverty, it is only recently that … strategies to reduce poverty (Christiaensen and Subbarao, 2001). The aim of this paper is to quantify the severity of … vulnerability by generating the first quantitative assessment of vulnerability in Uganda, a country at the forefront of poverty …

Although identifying the existence and the nature of household-level poverty traps would have important implications … for the design of poverty reduction policies empirical evidence is still scant. A small, growing empirical literature has … begun testing for poverty traps in the form of threshold points in non-linear welfare dynamics employing a variety of …