The Dynamics of Poverty: A Review of Decomposition Approaches and Application to Data from Burkina Faso’, mimeo, UFR-SEGUniversité de Ouagadougou

Abstract

Abstract Recent years have been characterized by significant efforts to understand and fight poverty, especially in Africa. Decomposing the dynamics of poverty is one of the focuses of this analysis, which seeks to evaluate the contribution some major factors make to the evolution of the phenomenon of poverty. Several approaches to this decomposition have been proposed in the literature. Our study draws on the Shapley value as a theoretical foundation for various decompositions and reviews the primary methods in existence. These methods are illustrated using data from Burkina Faso. This work was conducted with technical support from CREFA at the Université Laval and provides a framework for advanced training sessions jointly conducted by SISERA and the WBI