Poverty in Zimbabwe increased significantly during the 1990s, and it increased in all sectors of the economy. In the middle of the decade, more than 60 percent of Zimbabwean households fell below the national poverty line. There are competing reasons for this: some say it was the result of the...

Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Abstract -- Introduction -- 1 Country Overview -- 2 Economic Change and Poverty in the 1990s -- 3 Nonparametric Decompositions -- 4 Parametric Methods -- 5 Conclusions -- APPENDIX A: ICES Data and Deflators -- APPENDIX B: Density-Reweighting...