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Poverty and its Dynamics in Uganda: Explorations using a New Set of Poverty LinesFrom the book: Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
Econometric models Game theory HealthBook Chapter
Did Rapid Smallholder-led Agricultural Growth Fail to Reduce Rural Poverty?: Making Sense of Malawi's Poverty PuzzleFrom the book: Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
Equality and inequality Poverty measurement Rural developmentBook Chapter
Ghana: Poverty Reduction over Thirty YearsFrom the book: Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
Economic development Economic growth Equality and inequalityWorking Paper
Estimating utility-consistent poverty in Madagascar, 2001–10We 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 measurementWorking Paper
Estimating utility-consistent poverty in Ethiopia, 2000–11We 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 measurementWorking Paper
Poverty trends in PakistanThe official estimates of poverty in Pakistan have shown a remarkable and consistent decline in the poverty headcount during the previous decade...
Poverty Poverty measurementWorking Paper
Keep it real: Measuring real inequality using survey data from developing countriesThis paper investigates how two effects drive wedges between nominal and real inequality estimates...
Consumption Equality and inequality Poverty measurementWorking Paper
Methods matter: The sensitivity of Malawian poverty estimates to definitions, data, and assumptionsThis paper decomposes differences between the official poverty estimates of Malawi and a set of revised estimates by Pauw et al...
Aeronautics Economic growth PovertyVideo
New Approaches to MeasurementConference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies - Parallel 4.3
Index numbers (Economics) Inequality Poverty measurementVideo
DynamicsConference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies - Parallel 4.2
Inequality Education Poverty measurementVideo
The Impact of Policies on InequalityConference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies - Parallel 3.3
Inequality Poverty measurement Foreign aidJournal Article
Targeting Social Transfer Programmes: Comparing Design and Implementation Errors Across Alternative MechanismsPart 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 TanzaniaWe develop a poverty decomposition method that is based on a consumption regression model...
Infrastructure (Economics) Poverty measurementBook Chapter
Dimensions of African InequalityFrom the book: Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics, Vol. 1...
Education Equality and inequality Human capitalJournal 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 measurementWorking Paper
Ghana: Poverty Reduction Over Thirty YearsGhana 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