Measuring poverty remains a complex and contentious issue. This is particularly true in sub-Saharan Africa where … poverty rates are higher, information bases typically weaker, and the underlying determinants of welfare relatively volatile … poverty with focus on the period 2002/03 to 2008/09. The paper contributes in four areas. First, the period in question was …

why. In addition, the impact of the crises on employment and poverty is in dispute. We develop a dynamic computable … commodity crisis increased employment and reduced poverty by favouring labour-intensive exports, especially in agriculture. The … people below the US$2-a-day poverty line, with the vast majority of these being rural dwellers. The net effect of the crises …

Many low income countries in Africa are optimistic that producing biofuels domestically will not only reduce their …

While economic growth generally reduces income poverty, there are pronounced differences in the strength of this … relationship across countries. Typical explanations for this variation include measurement errors in growth-poverty accounting and … country’s growth-poverty relationship and performance. Using multiplier and structural path analysis, we compare the …

household poverty …

of the population below the poverty line. Socio-economic impacts are much larger during major drought years, thus …

This paper examines the impacts of the financial, food and fuel crises on the livelihoods of low-income households …