Haddad, Lawrence James; Ahmed, Akhter U. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2002
that fell into poverty was over twice as large as the number of households that climbed out of poverty. About two-thirds of … overall poverty was chronic (average consumption over time was below the poverty line), and almost half of all poor were … always poor. We use quantile regression methods to identify the factors that explain total, chronic, and transitory poverty …