positive effect of gaps on the worse-off is found only in Europe: gaps for the better-off in Africa and Central and Latin …

people at the lower end of income distribution will graduate into the middle class category. The increase in poverty rates …

income, consumption, human capital and assets, and, ultimately, a reduction in poverty. … poverty. Yet, the question of whether access to credit leads to poverty reduction and improved wellbeing remains open. To …

adopted Van Praag's theoretical framework and used household survey data from Ghana to investigate the monetary income which … households that are food insecure require a higher monetary income to reach the same level of verbal qualification of well …-being than their counterparts who are food secure. Furthermore, per capita household income levels positively correlate with …

to basic needs). These latter are picked up by various indices of deprivation, satisfaction and inequality. We find some …

available National Income Dynamics Study data to provide a thorough and up-to-date analysis of poverty dynamics in South Africa … vulnerability to poverty. We also update our 2018 analysis using NIDS Wave 5 data to directly link the dynamic study of poverty to … over time. In this paper we show that this dynamic element - the risk of falling into (deeper) poverty and the chances of …

gains in some indicators, multidimensional child poverty in Mozambique still substantially exceeds that in neighbouring … and poverty reduction experienced by the population as a whole translate into better living conditions for children. …

expenditure and income inequality using household surveys. Using VHLSS data, we measure inequality in different welfare indicators …, including consumption expenditure, income, electricity spending, and durable and housing value. Although relative inequality …