Poverty maps are a useful tool for the targeting of social programs on areas with high concentrations of poverty …. However, a static focus on poverty ignores the temporal dimension of poverty. Thus, current nonpoor households still face … substantial welfare volatility and are at risk of becoming poor in the face of shocks. We combine the methods of poverty mapping …

Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create …

Absolute poverty has dropped markedly in Bulgaria but income inequality has increased substantially in the aftermath of …

scheme that could serve as a model to alleviate poverty in developed economies in the transitional phase. The proposed scheme … from poverty. The concept of the simplified model is protection against poverty through income maintenance that is …

countries, including how countries balance the primary objective of poverty alleviation against the desire to both manage the … employment incentives over the primary objective of poverty alleviation. Many countries can reduce this trade off by combining …

Using micro-data from household expenditure surveys, we document the evolution of consumption poverty in the United … poverty has not declined materially since the 1980s and even increased for the young. We then analyze which social and … economic factors help explain the extent of poverty in the U.S. using probit, tobit, and machine learning techniques. Our …