This paper proposes three measures of average exit time from catastrophic health payments; the first measure is non … threshold of pre-payment income is increased from 5% to 15%, the average exit time decreases from 2.1 years to 0.2 years; and as … the catastrophic threshold rises from 10% to 40% of ability to pay, the average exit time falls from 3.6 years to 0 …

We develop a methodology to estimate the actual exit time from poverty and the minimum necessary growth rate to … time for the average poor (Kanbur, 1987) and the average exit time (Morduch, 1998) with the actual exit time in terms of … eradicate it in a pre-determined period of time without assuming distributionally neutral income growth. We compare the exit …