poverty and fostered the implementation of measurement and analytical techniques. In Burkina Faso, poverty reduction … incidence of poverty is high, particularly for multidimensional basic needs poverty and subjective poverty. A cumulative … analysis of the set of poverty kernels indicates that 37.7% of households experience all three forms of poverty following a …

Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …

This paper examines the extent and determinants of structural poverty dynamics in South Africa, focusing on the socio … complex processes, livelihood strategies, and asset dynamics that condition movements int o and out of structural poverty …

This paper generates multidimensional poverty profiles for women and children over a ten-year period from 1993 to 2003 …. Data from the national Demographic and Health Survey are used to improve measurement of poverty in Kenya in four ways … measurement of multidimensional poverty based on the CWI and health status. Third, stochastic dominance approaches are used to …

A new class of chronic poverty measures is constructed that builds upon Jalan and Ravallion (1998) but does not require … the resources of a person into a permanent income standard that is then compared to a poverty line to determine when a …) poverty measure with the same parameter β is applied to the distribution of permanent income standards to measure overall …

Nigeria has recorded impressive growth in the last decade, yet the impact of this growth on poverty reduction remains … unclear. This paper appraises spatial and temporal non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the first … is sensitive to indicator definitions, the overall results are robust and lend support to the view that poverty reduction …

In this paper, we analyze the link between nutrition and poverty in two Asian countries where monetary-based poverty … reduction was especially successful. Thailand and Viet Nam are two emerging market economies where poverty rates are now below ….25 poverty line. Also, Thailand, after the economic crisis, with 19% of children underweight, is still above the World Health …

foreign direct investment (FDI). This paper examines the impact of international remittances on poverty reduction using the … panel data of 10 Asian developing countries. In terms of the dependent variables, this paper sets three poverty indicators …: poverty headcount ratio, poverty gap ratio, and poverty severity ratio. Results show that international remittances have a …