This study examines the impact of the Sierra Leone civil war on household expenditure inequality. The paper exploits … three rounds of household survey data for Sierra Leone in an attempt to estimate the impact of the conflict on the … distribution of household welfare over both short-run and long-run periods. The empirical approach uses RIF measures based on the …

investigate both the immediate effects of shocks on household's income and assets, and the longer-term poverty dynamics of … behaviors and beliefs between these two household groups and the extent to which these differences can explain variations in the … that policies for DHs should address these natural shocks, our poverty dynamics analysis paints a different picture …

role of remittances in increasing household consumption and investment and thereby their potential for rebalancing economic … share of food consumption in the total expenditure. However, unlike previous studies, the estimations show that remittances … to the Philippines do not have a significant influence on other key items of consumption or investment such as spending …