/M) of National Child Benefit (NCB) rules, isolating the impact of these rules on low-income or poverty rates and gaps in … Canada. According to the after-tax LICO, now the most widely reported measure of low income or poverty, the national poverty … 4.6 per cent between 1996 and 1999 because of the introduction of the NCBS. The drop in the poverty gap was even greater …

This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. Our method is based on estimation … methods that focus on the poor. Using data from Tunisia, we estimate ‘focused’ transfer schemes that highly improve anti-poverty … targeting performances. Post-transfer poverty can be substantially reduced with the new estimation method. In terms of P2, the …

we show that the plausible policy decision depend on parameters describing the balance between poverty and program … exclusion risk. In the Tunisian case, only a much larger weight put on poverty relatively to exclusion could bring the decision …

has in fact been the reduction of poverty among senior citizens. According to Osberg, the poverty rate, defined with the … poverty line measured as one-half median equivalent income after taxes and transfers, for households headed by a person 65 or … over fell from 28.4 per cent in 1973 to 5.4 per cent in 1997, while the poverty gap or income shortfall below the poverty …

poverty. The report finds that China has made substantial progress in economic development since economic reform started in … in the incidence of poverty. Productivity performance has not been uniform across the agricultural and industrial sectors …, but both have contributed to aggregate growth and poverty reduction. Unfortunately economic reform has also brought …

The United Nations has set as a goal for the world community the halving of the rate of poverty between 1990 and 2015 …. Previous literature and empirical work provides a strong consensus that growth reduces poverty, and several recent studies have … poverty. But in dynamic economies most economic growth comes from productivity growth, and few studies have tested the …

This article attempts to assess empirically the impact of remittances on household expenditure and relative poverty in … poverty. The results show a statistically significant and positive impact of hose remittances on recipient households …’ expenditures. They are also significantly associated with a decline in the probability of being in poverty for rural households; it …

In this paper, we examine the effect of migrants’ remittances on poverty and inequality. The survey data were collected … scenario without remittances; this is then compared with its current income. We find that the poverty rate and the …