progress toward ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. This paper estimates the resource requirements to …

This paper is motivated by two stylized facts about poverty in Africa: female-headed households tend to be poorer, and … poverty has been falling in the aggregate since the 1990s. These facts raise two questions: How have female-headed households … fared? And what role have they played in Africa's impressive recent aggregate growth and poverty reduction? Using data …

Uganda's progress in reducing poverty during the late 1990s and early 2000s was remarkable. This note documents the … trends in poverty and inequality in Uganda with a focus on the period 2012 to 2016. It first explores how various indicators … of monetary poverty have evolved over time and if these trends vary by urban and rural areas and by region. This is …

determinant of poverty. This study estimates a model of determinants of poverty in Malawi which take into account the seasonality … significant in explaining poverty in Malawi, suggesting that seasonality should not be ignored in the estimates of poverty and … poverty estimates that do not control for seasonality may be biased …