Haddad, Lawrence James; Ahmed, Akhter U. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2002
This paper uses a panel data of 347 households in Egypt to measure changes in household consumption between 1997 and … 1999 and to identify causes behind the changes. Per capita consumption decreased for the households during this time and … overall poverty was chronic (average consumption over time was below the poverty line), and almost half of all poor were …