Most information about the incomes of people in Britain today, such as provided by official
statistics, tells us how much inequality there is or how many poor people there are in a given …

We examine the determinants of low income transitions using first‐order Markov models that
control for initial conditions effects (those found to be poor in the base year may be a non …

Objective. This article examines how events—such as changes in household composition,
employment status, disability status, and economic conditions—affect poverty entries and …

Previous studies on food insecurity in many developing countries, including Ethiopia, have
mainly focused on current food insecurity, lacking the ex-ante analysis. An understanding of …

This study analyzes the persistence of poverty in both rural and urban areas in Ethiopia
during 1994–2004. The key finding is that households move frequently in and out of poverty …

Governmental and developmental partners invest substantial resources to reduce land and
water degradation in order to upgrade agricultural productivity, thus reducing food insecurity …

The aim of this paper is to study the mechanisms behind poverty persistence in Spain. We
examine the importance of past poverty experiences for explaining current poverty as …

Based on a multiple spells approach, this paper studies the extent and the composition of
chronic poverty in Germany. The results indicate that about one-third of cross-sectional …

This paper uses panel data and two welfare indicators, namely per capita expenditure and
per capita food expenditure, to determine the frequency that the households enter poverty …

This study aims to explore poverty measures, its dynamics and determinants using
Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the …