This paper uses three waves of panel surveys at the household level to study growth and poverty in Albania over the … of growth and aims to expose the obstacles households face to improve their economic situation. The main focus of the … health. Only the higher education of poor urban households seems to have affected prospects for growing out of poverty, and …

The paper investigates the poverty impact of growth in Ethiopia by analysing panel data covering the period 1994 to … determinants. Decomposition of changes in poverty into the growth and redistribution components indicates that potential poverty … mostdeveloping countries, urban and rural poverty in Ethiopia are not significantly different from each other. The analysis of the …

Poverty in Nigeria is pervasive although the country is rich in human and material resources that should translate into … National Bureau of Statistics (NBS 2007, about 69 million people were living in poverty, which represents 54.4 percent of the … Nigerian population. Since the 1980s, the Nigerian poverty situation has been deteriorating. …