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	Poverty Dynamics Analysis	Household Livelihood Survey
Field	Development Studies	Development Studies
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	1998	2000
Originator	Jyotsna Jalan & Martin Ravallion; Bob Baulch & John Hoddinott	Frank Ellis; CIFOR Poverty Environment Network
Type	Panel-data analysis of poverty over time	Multi-source income and assets household survey
Seminal source	Jalan, J., & Ravallion, M. (1998). Transient Poverty in Postreform Rural China. Journal of Comparative Economics, 26(2), 338–357.	Ellis, F. (2000). Rural Livelihoods and Diversity in Developing Countries. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780198296966
Aliases	Poverty Transitions Analysis, Chronic and Transient Poverty Analysis, Poverty Spells Analysis, Poverty Mobility Analysis	Livelihood survey, Household income survey, Rural livelihoods survey, Income and assets survey
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Summary	Poverty Dynamics Analysis uses household panel data to study how poverty changes over time for the same people, distinguishing those who are persistently poor from those who move in and out of poverty. Building on the work of Jyotsna Jalan and Martin Ravallion (1998) and the comparative synthesis of Bob Baulch and John Hoddinott (2000), it reframes poverty from a static headcount into a study of entries, exits, and spells. Its central output is a separation of total poverty into a chronic component, attributable to persistently low living standards, and a transient component, attributable to fluctuations around the poverty line over time.	A household livelihood survey is an instrument designed to capture the full portfolio of activities, income sources, assets, and expenditures through which a household secures its living. Rooted in the rural-livelihoods literature associated with Frank Ellis and in global comparative income studies such as the CIFOR Poverty Environment Network, it measures welfare and resilience by mapping the diversity of a household's economic activities — farming, wage labour, self-employment, environmental harvesting, transfers, and remittances — rather than reducing the household to a single income or consumption figure.