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Book Chapter
Poverty and its Dynamics in Uganda: Explorations using a New Set of Poverty Lines

From the book: Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

Econometric models Game theory Health
Book Chapter
Did Rapid Smallholder-led Agricultural Growth Fail to Reduce Rural Poverty?: Making Sense of Malawi's Poverty Puzzle

From the book: Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

Equality and inequality Poverty measurement Rural development
Book Chapter
Ghana: Poverty Reduction over Thirty Years

From the book: Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

Economic development Economic growth Equality and inequality
Working Paper
Estimating utility-consistent poverty in Madagascar, 2001–10

We adapt the standardized Poverty Line Estimation Analytical Software–PLEASe computer code stream based on Arndt and Simler’s (2010) utility-consistent approach to measuring consumption poverty in order to analyse poverty in Madagascar in...

Poverty measurement
Working Paper
Estimating utility-consistent poverty in Ethiopia, 2000–11

We adapt the standardized Poverty Line Estimation Analytical Software (PLEASe) computer code stream based on Arndt and Simler’s (2010) utility-consistent approach to analyse poverty in Ethiopia in 2000, 2005, and 2011...

Equality and inequality Poverty measurement
Working Paper
Poverty trends in Pakistan

The official estimates of poverty in Pakistan have shown a remarkable and consistent decline in the poverty headcount during the previous decade...

Poverty Poverty measurement
Working Paper
Keep it real: Measuring real inequality using survey data from developing countries

This paper investigates how two effects drive wedges between nominal and real inequality estimates...

Consumption Equality and inequality Poverty measurement
Working Paper
Methods matter: The sensitivity of Malawian poverty estimates to definitions, data, and assumptions

This paper decomposes differences between the official poverty estimates of Malawi and a set of revised estimates by Pauw et al...

Aeronautics Economic growth Poverty
Video
New Approaches to Measurement

Conference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies - Parallel 4.3

Index numbers (Economics) Inequality Poverty measurement
Video
Dynamics

Conference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies - Parallel 4.2

Inequality Education Poverty measurement
Video
The Impact of Policies on Inequality

Conference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies - Parallel 3.3

Inequality Poverty measurement Foreign aid
Journal Article
Targeting Social Transfer Programmes: Comparing Design and Implementation Errors Across Alternative Mechanisms

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid, Social Policy and Development

Government policy (Poor) Poverty measurement Methodology (Poverty)
Working Paper
Poverty decomposition by regression: An application to Tanzania

We develop a poverty decomposition method that is based on a consumption regression model...

Infrastructure (Economics) Poverty measurement
Book Chapter
Dimensions of African Inequality

From the book: Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics, Vol. 1...

Education Equality and inequality Human capital
Journal Article
Evaluating Antipoverty Transfer Programmes in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa: Better Policies? Better Politics?

Part of Journal Special Issue Experiments in Development Economics

Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development projects Poverty measurement
Working Paper
Ghana: Poverty Reduction Over Thirty Years

Ghana is relatively rare among Sub-Saharan African countries in having had sustained positive growth every year since the mid-1980s...

Economic development Economic growth Equality and inequality
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