This study uses simulations to explore the possibility of halving the percentage of people living in extreme poverty in … different. In some cases small changes in income-distribution can have a large effect on poverty, while in others a strong focus …

consumption poverty in urban Ethiopia. Despite the decline in consumption poverty in recent years, which has been linked to rapid … economic growth, subjective poverty has remained largely unchanged. Dynamic probit regression results show that households with … a history of past poverty continue to perceive themselves as poor even if their material consumption improves. Our …

Previous studies of poverty in developing countries have to a great extent focused on the characteristics of the … rounds of panel data to investigate the persistence of poverty in urban Ethiopia with a particular focus on the role of intra … market status of non-head household members are important determinants of households' poverty status. Results also show that …

This paper investigates dynamics of poverty in urban Ethiopia using both subjective and objective definitions of … poverty. The two sets of estimates of persistence and recurrence of poverty are similar, suggesting that consumption …

I discuss how poverty decomposition methods relate to integral approximation, which is the foundation of decomposition …-value decomposition and methods related to the Datt-Ravallion approach and point out difficulties in axiomatic approaches to poverty … development of poverty decomposition should account for the basis in integral approximation. <p> …