Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Child poverty and household poverty in Cameroon: A multidimensional approach.- Chapter 3: The impact of child malnutrition and health on cognitive skill in Ethiopia: using standard panel data analysis.- Chapter 4: Assessing MDG achievement through under-5 child stunting in East African Community.- Chapter 5: Dynamics and determinants of poverty in Nigeria: Evidence from panel survey.- Chapter 6: The Impact of international remittances on expenditure patterns of urban households in Ethiopia.- Chapter 7: Determinants of consumption expenditures and poverty dynamics in urban Ethiopia: Evidence from panel data.- Chapter 8: Impact of the 2002’s VAT rate reform on household welfare in Rwanda.- Chapter 9: On the measurement of multidimensional well-being in some East African countries.- Chapter 10: Multidimensional measures of poverty in Ethiopia: Principal component and stochastic dominancy analysis.- Chapter 11: Biofuel, Poverty, Food Security and Growth in Ethiopia: A Computable General Equilibrium Microsimulation Analysis.- Chapter 12: Does Energy Resources Spending mitigate adverse effects of CO2 Emissions from Oil exploration in Africa?.