We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. Second, poverty scars: those who have been … poor in the past report lower life satisfaction today, even when out of poverty. Last, the order of poverty spells matters …

Official poverty figures in Uganda are flawed by the fact that the underlying poverty lines are based on a single … national food basket that was constructed in the early 1990s. In this paper, we estimate a new set of poverty lines that … poverty lines, we then look at poverty dynamics using four waves of the Uganda National Panel Survey. We classify households …

This paper decomposes differences between the official poverty estimates of Malawi and a set of revised estimates by … conversion factors; (ii) the specification and use of regional poverty lines as opposed to a single national poverty line; (iii …) the use of implicit survey-based prices rather than external price data; (iv) estimation of food separate poverty lines in …