This book looks at 55 years of independence, over eight decades of colonial rule, and
earlier kingdoms and groups that shared the Congolese territory. This fourth edition …

This analysis aims to provide a comprehensive representation of the role of regional
disparities in the nexus between poverty and subjective well‐being, by adding the territorial …

The widely applied “dollar-a-day” methodology identifies global absolute poverty as
declining precipitously since the early 80's throughout the developing world. The …

Abstract The Food Consumption Score (FCS), a food frequency indicator developed by the
World Food Programme (WFP) that aims to capture both diet quantity and quality of …

the paper argues that household budgets are the best starting point for investigating a
number of big questions related to the evolution of the living standards during the last two …

Modifying the national poverty line to the context of observed consumption patterns of the
poor is becoming popular. A context-specific poverty line would be more consistent with …

We use a randomized field experiment to test whether a new self-study routine, designed to
encourage the use of textbooks at home, can improve student achievement. In treatment …

Since the signing of the peace treaties in Sun City in 2002, which formalized the beginning
of a new period of political transition, development prospects in the Democratic Republic of …

Measuring and comparing the levels of household welfare and poverty in a country require
cost-of-living differences across regions to be properly adjusted. In measuring the spatial …

How have people's livelihoods evolved recently in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(DRC)? Many observers are not too shy to come up with an answer to this question. All …