This paper analyzes the complex effects and risks of social protection programmes in Ghana and Kenya on poor people’s human wellbeing, voice and empowerment and interactions with the social protection regulatory framework and policy instruments. For this purpose, it adopts a comprehensive...

We construct and derive the properties of an estimator of welfarewhich takes advantage of the detailed nature of information about living standards available in small household surveys and the comprehensive coverage of a census. By combining the strengths of each, our estimator can be used at a...

Elbers, Lanjouw, and Lanjouw discuss the use of imputed data in regression analysis, in particular the use of highly disaggregated welfare indicators (from so-called quot;poverty mapsquot;). They show that such indicators can be used both as explanatory variables on the right-hand side and as...

We discuss the use of imputed data in regression analysis, in particular the use of highly disaggregated welfare indicators (from so-called `poverty maps`). We show that such indicators can be used both as explanatory variables on the right-hand side and as the phenomenon to explain on the...