dynamics and related issues such as the propensity of earners to fall into poverty or vulnerability to poverty because of … measures of interest, such as an individual's vulnerability to poverty. The results show that model parameters recovered from … this case pseudo-panel measures of vulnerability to poverty, reflect closely those based on actual panel data. …

A fundamental premise of absolute poverty lines is that they represent the same level of utility through time and space …. Disturbingly, a series of recent studies in middle- and low-income economies show that even carefully derived poverty lines rarely … satisfy this premise. This article proposes an information-theoretic approach to estimating cost-of-basic-needs (CBN) poverty …

those strategies need to be complemented by poverty alleviation programs. With regards to such programs, informality in …

In an economy with migration, poverty changes are composed of a number of forces, including the income gains and losses … measure the contributions of different migration streams to overall poverty change. An application to Tanzania shows the new … insights that are provided - in particular on the role of migration to secondary towns in poverty reduction. …

We adapt the standardized Poverty Line Estimation Analytical Software (PLEASe) computer code stream based on Arndt and … spatial domains and limiting the number of iterations in the estimation of poverty lines are potential solutions. … Simler's (2010) utility-consistent approach to analyse poverty in Ethiopia in 2000, 2005, and 2011. Several data …