a surge after the devaluation, poverty incidence plummeted slightly. Extreme poverty decreased, and growth has been pro … education, nutrition and health. The high degree of inequality is important for explaining the disappointing results in poverty … reduction. The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) gives priority to investment in education and health supply. In countries …

to stunted Jamaican toddlers living in poverty. The intervention consisted of one-hour weekly visits from community …

The traditional approach to poverty measurement puts no explicit weight on success at increasing the typical level of … available surveys for the developing world over 1981-2011, the expected value of the floor is about half the $1.25 a day poverty …

quarter. By contrast, the differences in poverty measures caused by this deflation can be considerable, for chronic as well as … transient or seasonal poverty indicators. Thus, poverty monitoring and anti-poverty targeting can be badly affected by … inaccurate deflation of living standard data. Moreover, when measuring seasonal poverty, the deflation based on regional prices …

. The results confirm the usefulness of this class of models, which permit the computation of poverty and inequality …