, measuring the pro-poorness of the growth process is complex due to (i) measurement errors and (ii) effect shocks that may hit …

Armutsbekämpfung sich durch ein dynamisches Wirtschaftswachstum auch bei einem relativen Rückzug des Staates ergeben können. … European country to develop an anti-poverty strategy with a specific target. The poverty indicator developed for this purpose … used a definition of poverty in line with that proposed by the EU, reflecting both scarcity of resources (measured as …

This paper reviews the poverty measuring practices, available measures of poverty, and economic growth figures of Nepal …. The currently available three poverty rates for fiscal years 1976/77, 1984/85, and 1995/96 are found to be not comparable … mainly due to change in methodology over time. Despite such methodological changes, the three poverty rates average around 40 …

We use Arndt and Simler's utility-consistent approach to calculating poverty lines to analyse poverty in Ethiopia in … 2000, 2005, and 2011. Poverty reduction was steady but uneven, with gains greatest in urban areas in the first half of the … pattern of persistent improvements, though the large declines in poverty are not entirely supported by the magnitudes of …