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We contribute to the literature on trends in living standards in Tanzania by analysing child welfare using two multi-dimensional approaches, first-order dominance (FOD) and Alkire-Foster (AF). Between 1991/92 and 2010, remarkably similar area rankings emerge that suggest a widening gap between the...
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Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
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– Snapshots in the Presence of Multiple Economy-Wide Shocks
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Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
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– Two Decades of Poverty Increase in Côte d'Ivoire, 1988-2008
From the book:
Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
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From the book:
Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
Book Chapter
From the book:
Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
Book Chapter
– Off-track or Temporarily Sidelined?
From the book:
Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
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– Explorations using a New Set of Poverty Lines
From the book:
Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
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From the book:
Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
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– Welfare Improvements in a Changing Economic Landscape
From the book:
Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Estimating multidimensional childhood poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 2007 through 2013
After years of economic decline, conflict, and instability, the Democratic Republic of Congo achieved rapid economic growth in the 2000s along with a reduction in rural consumption poverty. This paper evaluates the extent to which recent growth has been accompanied by improvements in...
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This paper analyses the evolution of consumption poverty in Rwanda between 2001/1 and 2010/11, using three comparable good quality household surveys analysed along with detailed price data. Rwanda achieved impressive growth over this period. The first half of the 2000s was associated with slow...
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– Off-track or Temporarily Sidelined?
Since 1994, a great deal has been accomplished. We argue that poverty reduction was temporarily sidelined in the 2000s. A series of shocks, especially the fuel and food price crisis of 2008, combined with poor productivity growth in agriculture and a weather shock, undermined progress in measured...
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– The case of food prices in Mozambique
Changes in relative prices of commodities consumed in different shares across income groups can be expected to alter real income differentials between these groups. Using Mozambican household budget survey and price data from 2002/03 and 2008/09, we show that once relative price increases are...
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– The Case Study of Cameroon
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the growth performance of the Cameroonian economy from independence in 1960 to date, and then to use this as a background for the analysis of poverty, inequality, and non-monetary outcomes. The analysis of poverty and inequality uses the microeconomic data...
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