We use Arndt and Simler's (2010) utility-consistent approach to calculating poverty lines to analyse poverty in … national poverty rising from 56.3 per cent in 2001 to 59.6 per cent in 2005, and to 61.4 per cent in 2010, are not necessarily … indicative of a trend of persistently rising poverty. Complementary data indicate that in the time periods between the shocks …

poverty regularly. This paper develops an economically intuitive and inexpensive methodology to do so in the absence of … methodology is illustrated using a series of Demographic Health Surveys from Kenya …

Global poverty rates have declined considerably, but the number of people living in extreme poverty remains high. Many … commercialization on income poverty, but whether income gains from commercialization are really used for satisfying basic needs was … hardly analyzed up till now. Here, we evaluate the effect of commercialization on income poverty, as well as on the …

Tracking Poverty Over Time in the Absence of Comparable Consumption Data David Stifel and Luc Christiaensen Following … for practical methods for steadily tracking poverty. The minimum data requirements for this methodology are the … poverty. While the method is straightforward, the predicted evolution of poverty holds only under a series of stringent …

increasing demand for practical methods for steadily tracking poverty. An economically intuitive and inexpensive methodology is … Kenya …