poverty reduction. The findings suggest that population dynamics do not appear to be a major driver of changes in growth of … per capita incomes, poverty, or inequality. At the macro level this can be seen at the off-setting effects of population … household size on poverty and inequality appears to have fallen in recent years, particularly in rural areas. Thus demographic …

The paper examines the link between population and per capita economic growth, and poverty, using the interesting case … study of Uganda. Although Uganda has recently experienced excellent economic growth and poverty reduction, it currently has … impact of population growth on per capita economic growth and poverty. We find both theoretical considerations and strong …

In this paper we develop a multidimensional poverty measure that attempts to capture absolute poverty in the … the resource space. To generate a relative measure, this measure adapts the poverty cut-off in resource-related indicators … in a multidimensional poverty measure to prevailing standards in a region. As illustration, this poverty measure utilizes …

Although empowerment is seen as intrinsically important and instrumentally valuable to escape poverty, there is very …

The paper examines the link between population and per capita economic growth, and poverty, using the interesting case … study of Uganda. Although Uganda has recently experienced excellent economic growth and poverty reduction, it currently has … impact of population growth on per capita economic growth and poverty. We find both theoretical considerations and strong …

education, health, and poverty reduction and will make improvements in these areas very difficult. It may also be an important … between 1.5 and 3 percentage points. It could also significantly contribute to improvements in poverty, inequality, education … as well as family planning services, and government political leadership to promote smaller families. -- poverty …

poverty reduction. The findings suggest that population dynamics do not appear to be a major driver of changes in growth of … per capita incomes, poverty, or inequality. At the macro level this can be seen at the off-setting effects of population … household size on poverty and inequality appears to have fallen in recent years, particularly in rural areas. Thus demographic …

poverty line, expressed in PPP-adjusted dollars and linked to various rounds of the International Comparison of Prices (ICP …; they also roughly confirm the current shape of the proposed "weakly relative" poverty line. Using the new absolute line … using 2011 PPPs would lead to substantially lower poverty in our estimation. The extent of the decline depends on whether …

We investigate the accuracy of ex ante assessments of vulnerability to income poverty using cross-sectional data and … vulnerability predictions is limited even when panel data are used. In part this low accuracy is due to low poverty incidence and … high mobility in and out of poverty. …

Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …