paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … income surveys, while there often are urban household surveys as well as nationally representative Demographic and Health … Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality …

Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few …. Furthermore, this inequality gap is rising over time. Despite the country's fast poverty reduction, the poor were increasingly … segregated in certain provinces. We find beneficial impact of economic growth on poverty reduction, but this can depend on …

Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few …. Furthermore, this inequality gap is rising over time. Despite the country's fast poverty reduction, the poor were increasingly … segregated in certain provinces. We find beneficial impact of economic growth on poverty reduction, but this can depend on …

Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but … this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, moderate, and extreme poverty in Ghana …-sectional data. While we find considerable conditional chronic (extreme) poverty rates hovering around 50-60 percent, there is more …

inequalities in educational attendance across the income distribution. Interestingly, inequalities in attendance declines with …

This paper examines anonymous and non-anonymous Growth Incidence Curves (GICs) for after-tax disposable income for …

2003-2011 period, using measures of equivalised disposable income from the Survey of Income and Living Conditions (SILC …. However, the results must be qualified by the fact that the income measure may not completely capture living standards as it …

Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but … this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, moderate, and extreme poverty in Ghana …-sectional data. While we find considerable conditional chronic (extreme) poverty rates hovering around 50-60 percent, there is more …

Between 1991 and 2015, the real disposable, needs-adjusted income of persons in private households in Germany rose by … 15 percent on average. The majority of the population has benefited from the growth in real income, but the groups at the … lower end of the income distribution have not. Inequality in both market and disposable needs-adjusted household income has …