We argue that inter-country comparisons of income poverty based on poverty lines uniformly reflecting the costs of the … uniform approach to poverty assessment based on basic human capabilities for three countries: Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Vietnam …. We compute standard errors of the resulting poverty estimates and compare the incidence of poverty across these three …

multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with …

multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with …

specifically on the poverty impacts of growth. Considering a cross-sectional perspective for poverty measurement, early …’s treatment of mobility encompasses both the gain of "mobility as equalizer" and the variability cost of poverty transiency …

growth. Measurement tools that endorse this approach fail to capture the different experiences of poverty dynamics in the …The canonical approach to analysing the poverty impact of growth is based on the comparison of poverty before and after … measuring this individual poverty incidence of growth, and show how it relates to existing models. We apply our framework to …

income performance and that, when this happens, income redistribution can still play a key role for poverty reduction. Yet a …The paper uses a range of methods to assess changes in income, poverty and income distribution between 2001 and 2002 in …, both income poverty and inequality have decreased significantly and growth has been 'pro-poor', which is explained by …

Putting the combat against poverty to the fore as the main objective of the development process has raised the issue of … the linkage between economic growth, inequality and poverty. There is now a growing agreement that both the rate and the … distributional impact of growth are important in fighting poverty. This means that pro-poorness of a given growth rate is more …

likely effects on poverty, inequality, and economic mobility. While poverty has declined, inequality has remained relatively … high and stable over nearly four decades. In this paper, for the first time, we examine poverty and inequality in a dynamic …. Focusing on the dynamics of poverty, we distinguish between short- and long-term poor and between chronic and transient poverty …

results are largely supported in considerations of cross-section versus pooled data, simultaneity issues, and the measurement …