Nigeria has recorded impressive growth in the last decade, yet the impact of this growth on poverty reduction remains … unclear. This paper appraises spatial and temporal non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the first … is sensitive to indicator definitions, the overall results are robust and lend support to the view that poverty reduction …

We explore a novel first order dominance (FOD) approach to poverty mapping and compare its properties to small area … conclude that the FOD approach to poverty mapping constitutes a useful addition to the toolkit of policy analysts. …

Constrained by resource limitations and challenged by the increasing incidence of poverty in the country, the … Philippine government embarked on an anti-poverty programme that sought to identify where the poorest people were, what were …, poverty statistics in the Philippines have recently become not only as the means of identifying the most deprived regions or …

This paper demonstrates the implications of adopting an approach to measuring poverty that takes into account the … theoretical innovations in Hoy and Zheng (2008) which address various aspects of the specific pattern of any poverty spells … experience as a whole. For an individual, our perspective of lifetime poverty is influenced by both the snapshot poverty of each …

The growing urbanization of poverty poses a significant challenge to governments and donors alike, particularly in Asia … mechanisms for urban poverty reduction, as discussed here. Where there have been successes in improved service delivery for the … provision. New forms of partnership will be required. For greater progress in urban poverty reduction to be made, however, the …

poverty assessments not only depend on the absolute level of income, but on how it compares to three reference points: the … life, and the income she had 3 years ago. I find that subjective poverty assessments evidence reference-dependence in the … inability to exceed income aspirations increases the probability of subjective poverty regardless of the individual's position …

The analysis of poverty dynamics yields important insights about the expected effectiveness of alternative social … policies on poverty reduction. This paper analyses the effect of spell recurrence on poverty dynamics taking into account … multiple poverty and non-poverty spells. Using longitudinal data for Spain we obtain that the poverty exit and re-entry rates …

One of the most visible and enduring manifestations of urban poverty in developing countries is the formation and …

poverty. It is based on the findings of primary fieldwork on the char islands of north-west Bangladesh, investigating the …