@article{Arndt:332145,
      recid = {332145},
      author = {Arndt, Channing and Hussain, M. Azhar and Jones, E. Samuel  and Nhate, Virgulino and Tarp, Finn and Thurlow, James},
      title = {Explaining Poverty Evolution: The Case of Mozambique},
      address = {2011},
      pages = {38},
      year = {2011},
      note = {Presented at the 14th Annual Conference on Global Economic  Analysis, Venice, Italy},
      abstract = {Measuring poverty remains a complex and contentious issue.  This is particularly true in sub-Saharan Africa where  poverty rates are higher, information bases typically  weaker, and the underlying determinants of welfare  relatively volatile. This paper employs recently collected  data on household consumption in Mozambique to examine the  evolution of consumption poverty with focus on the period  2002-03 to 2008-09. The paper contributes in four areas.  First, the period in question was characterized by major  movements in international commodity prices. Mozambique  provides an illuminating case study of the implications of  these world commodity price changes for living standards of  poor people. Second, a novel 'backcasting' approach using a  computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of Mozambique,  linked to a poverty module, is introduced. Third, the  backcasting approach is also employed to rigorously examine  the povertygrowth-inequality triangle. Finally, various  simple but useful and rarely applied approaches to  considering regional changes in poverty rates are  presented. We find that the national poverty rate in  Mozambique stagnated between 2002/03 and 2008/09.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/332145},
}