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 …

participants by poverty status, their duration of participation, and earnings from it are used. The analysis is based on primary …

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 …

Using a unique panel data for rural India for the periods 1999 and 2006 this paper models vulnerability to poverty. We … quantify household vulnerability in rural India in 1999 and 2006, investigate the determinants of ex post poverty as well as ex … ante vulnerability, assess the role of ex ante vulnerability on poverty shift during the sample periods (i.e. movement into …

by poverty and idiosyncratic components. So far as risk coping strategies go households rely heavily on informal …

, but also on the risks it faces. Hence vulnerability is a more satisfactory measure of (inadequate) welfare than poverty …. We measure vulnerability as expected poverty and establish the importance of its determinants, for Timor Leste' based on … inadequacy are more severe than overall poverty and vulnerability to poverty. Poverty and vulnerability in Timor-Leste' is …

vulnerability is a more satisfactory measure of welfare. In this paper we measure the extent of vulnerability as expected poverty …, vulnerability (and poverty) is largely a rural phenomenon. Moreover, the distribution of vulnerability across different segments of … the population can differ significantly from the distribution of poverty. In addition, there is a sizable fraction of the …

food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing upon the large household … effects of RPW or PDS on poverty. We have found significant and negative effects of the household participation in RPW and … Food for Work Programmes on poverty, undernutrition (e.g. protein) and vulnerability in 1993 and 2004. On the contrary …

expenditures, but also on the risks it faces. Hence vulnerability is a more satisfactory measure of welfare than poverty. In this … paper we measure the extent of vulnerability as expected poverty, examine the importance of its determinants in the … populations of these countries facing the risk of poverty are considerably different from those observed to be poor. Moreover, the …