Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … rates, as well as mean consumption levels and the entire consumption distribution. Analyzing 22 multi-topic household …

Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … rates, as well as mean consumption levels and the entire consumption distribution. Analyzing 22 multi-topic household …

effective use requires standardized protocols. We refine existing poverty imputation models using 14 multi-topic household … surveys conducted over the past decade in Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam. We find that adding household …Household consumption data are often unavailable, not fully collected, or incomparable over time in poorer countries …

effective use requires standardized protocols. We refine existing poverty imputation models using 14 multi-topic household … surveys conducted over the past decade in Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam. We find that adding household …Household consumption data are often unavailable, not fully collected, or incomparable over time in poorer countries …

This paper examines empirically the effect of social capital, measured by household membership in community …-based organizations and participation in village life, on the welfare of rural households in Tanzania. Using a database that combines … standard information on household welfare with multidimensional measures of social capital, the paper attempts to address three …

The study investigated the impact of pottery trade in reducing poverty among the Kisi households in Ludewa district … which is located very close to Lake Nyasa..The role of pottery industry in breaking the vicious cycle of poverty among the … liberation in the 1980s fishing is overtaken by pottery industry. The data for calculation of poverty index was collected from …

robust and comprehensive tool to evaluate the effect on household welfare of different agricultural policies in Tanzania and …-separable agricultural household models. According to this framework, second-order (or behavioural) effects include a direct (i.e., supply or … consumption and production can bias the final impact on household welfare. The main objective of this study is thus to develop a …

The effectiveness of social safety nets (SSNs) as anti-poverty policy instruments is increasingly attracting attention …, leaving a gap in the knowledge and literature. We use the Tanzanian 2017-18 Household Budget Survey dataset, comprising 9 … insecurity (VFI). The VFI is evaluated using the vulnerability as expected poverty (VEP) approach, whereas the impact is …