The poverty impact of indirect tax reforms is analyzed using sequential stochastic dominance methods. This allows …

of improving social welfare or decreasing poverty for large classes of social welfare and poverty indices. It also … derives estimators of critical poverty lines and economic efficiency ratios which can be used to characterize socially …

paper, we utilize Consumption Dominance curve techniques to analyse the impact of marginal indirect tax changes on poverty … marginal tax changes which will reduce poverty for some selected commodities over a broad class of poverty measures and poverty …

poverty despite striking reductions in absolute poverty. The effects of relative deprivation explain why average happiness has …

revenue, which is spent for public goods (including education) and transfers (for poverty reduction). The efficient design of … poverty in an appropriate time period by transfers and vocational education measures for the grown-up as well as high quality …

We evaluate the impact of the rise in food prices during 2006-2008 on the poverty and extreme poverty rates in Mexico … prices of food products. We find a modest increase in poverty using 2006-2007 prices, however, there is a daunting effect on … in 2008, such as reduced taxes and tariffs on food products and greater subsidies to the extremely poor, the poverty rate …

continuing controversy in India over poverty lines, we use a framework that rigorously assesses the impact of growth on the poor … over a range of poverty lines. Using National sample Surveys on consumption expenditure, we show that while growth has …

This paper provides an approach to poverty measurement that relies on the interpretation of poverty as a welfare loss … introducing the notion of “distributive impact of poverty” (a measure of the poverty loss due to the inequality among the poor …). We show that a welfare inequality measure can be expressed as the sum of the average individual welfare poverty plus the …