stochastic dominance framework. The key advantage is that the assessment as to whether pricing or price cap reforms are poverty …

This chapter offers a primer on poverty, inequality, and vulnerability analysis and a guide to resources on this topic …. It is written for decision makers who want to define the type of information they need to monitor poverty reduction and … translated from an English version published in the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook. …

end of 2002, poverty is likely to be high and to have risen in recent years even compared to its high postconflict level …. The first objective of this chapter is to estimate the share of the population in poverty in 2002, predict how it may have … evolved since then, and assess the levels of growth that will be required to reduce poverty measures in the future. The …

This chapter offers a primer on poverty, inequality, and vulnerability analysis and a guide to resources on this topic …. It is written for decision makers who want to define the type of information they need to monitor poverty reduction and … translated from an English version published in the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook. …

poverty over time, but this was mainly due to the adoption of a relative measure of poverty and to comparability issues … between the surveys. The task of assessing the trends in poverty and inequality was also made more difficult because the unit … necessary to estimate poverty and inequality using group data. In this paper, we use the Poverty module of SimSIP in order to …

This chapter offers a primer on poverty, inequality, and vulnerability analysis and a guide to resources on this topic …. It is written for decision makers who want to define the type of information they need to monitor poverty reduction and … translated from an English version published in the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook. …

In order to inform discussions on the extent of poverty in a country, it is often useful to compare the country …’s poverty measures to estimates obtained in other countries with similar levels of development within the same region of the … world. This short dissemination note provides estimates of poverty for countries from the Franc CFA zone and shows how …

, one in three persons living in poverty today might not be poor had it not been for the conflict. …

growth rates and substantial poverty reduction, with the share of the population living in poverty declining from 67.9 to 57 ….1 percent. Poverty in urban areas was reduced faster than in rural areas, as most of the investment benefited the manufacturing …

This chapter was originally drafted in 2007 to inform the diagnostic of Liberia’s first Poverty Reduction Strategy. It … Statistics and Geo-Information Services. The chapter estimates the level of poverty and vulnerability in the country, provides a … profile of poverty, and analyzes the household level determinants or correlates of consumption and poverty. Slightly less than …