insecurity in terms of monetary poverty. Using a Malian survey that incorporates exceptionally detailed information on food …

guaranteeing donors that the money granted are used for programmes effective in poverty reduction. The present paper is constituted …

households headed by men. We analyze the determinants of consumption, shock exposure and vulnerability to poverty. Using unique … and less vulnerable to poverty than households with a male head. In Vietnam de jure female-headed households are … consumption poorer and more vulnerable to poverty. In Thailand de jure female-headed households do not differ significantly from …

for this new measure is the current level of wellbeing of a household as opposed to another benchmark such as the poverty …) axiomatic measure of vulnerability to poverty. We apply a measure of both vulnerability to downside risk and to poverty to data … is highly non-linear. While moderately but not extremely poor households are relatively vulnerable to extreme poverty …

Previous poverty assessments for Burkina Faso were biased due to the neglect of some important methodological issues …. This led to the so-called ‘Burkinabè Growth-Poverty-Paradox’, i.e. relatively sustained macro-economic growth, but almost … constant poverty. We estimate that poverty significantly decreased between 1994 and 2003 at least on the national level, i …

Previous poverty assessments for Burkina Faso were biased due to the neglect of some important methodological issues …. This led to the so-called ‘Burkinabè Growth-Poverty-Paradox’, i.e. relatively sustained macro-economic growth, but almost … constant poverty. We estimate that poverty significantly decreased between 1994 and 2003 at least on the national level, i …

after the devaluation, poverty incidence plummeted slightly. Extreme poverty decreased, and growth has been pro-poor to some …, nutrition and health. The high degree of inequality is important for explaining the disappointing results in poverty reduction …. The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) gives priority to investment in education and health supply. In countries like …

, as a micro-level institution, it fosters productivity in order to reduce poverty. The concepts of institutions …, productivity and poverty are reviewed to establish a framework of analysis, where institutions are linked to productivity and … poverty. This framework is applied to a comedor the author visited in 2001 and 2003. Through the diversity and intensity of …