Using a four-round panel data set from the first phase of the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction …

reducing poverty. Applying a dynamic panel approach to four panel data sets including two covering some 90 LDCs from 1977 …Empirical evidence in the sparse literature on poverty convergence currently relies on cross-sectional analysis, where … Less Developed Countries (LDCs) starting out poorer are found to have enjoyed no faster subsequent poverty reduction during …

A growing literature uses repeated cross-section surveys to derive 'synthetic panel' data estimates of poverty dynamics … synthetic panel estimates relative to benchmarks based on estimates derived from genuine household panel data, employing high …. Overall, we are more agnostic about the validity of the synthetic panel approach applied to these two rich countries than are …

traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and education … poverty …

Panel data are rarely available for developing countries. Departing from traditional pseudo-panel methods that require … multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with … disaggregated household level. Validation using Monte Carlo simulations and real cross-sectional and actual panel survey data from …

We evaluate progress in President's Johnson's War on Poverty. We do so relative to the scientifically arbitrary but … policy relevant 20 percent baseline poverty rate he established for 1963. No existing poverty measure fully captures poverty … reductions based on the standard that President Johnson set. To fill this gap, we develop a Full-income Poverty Measure with …

Estimates of the number of people living in extreme poverty, as reported by the World Bank, figure prominently in … international development dialogue and policy. An assumption underpinning these poverty counts is that there are no economies of … global estimates of extreme poverty to changing this assumption. The analysis rests on nationally representative household …

Economic Panel Study (SOEP). Furthermore, the paper shows that problems that are difficult to monitor, especially problems like …

Bankengruppe and Creditreform set up a panel study of newly founded firms in Germany: the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel. In each of the … yearly panel waves computer-aided telephone interviews (CATI) are conducted with about 6,000 start-up firms from almost all … industries. The KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel will for the first time enable profound analyses of the temporal development of newly …