The paper develops a new approach to measuring the impact of government cash transfers on poverty alleviation that … of changes in government cash benefits on poverty rates in Russia during 1994 to 1998. The methodological contribution is … changes in the expenditure distribution excluding cash transfers on movements in poverty rates. At least 30% of the rise in …

(english) This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. Our method is based on … anti-poverty targeting performances. Post-transfer poverty can be substantially reduced with the new estimation method. In … terms of P2, the most popular axiomatically valid poverty indicator, moving from 1.30, the level reached under subsidies, to …

level data 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 …

of incomes of future generations. The purpose of this paper is two-fold. From a policy point of view, we analyse poverty … was expensive but that it provided effective - albeit not efficient - poverty relief. From a methodological point of view …, we demonstrate the usefulness of bootstrapping techniques for statistical inference for poverty and inequality measures …

. The results confirm the usefulness of this class of models, which permit the computation of poverty and inequality …

(english) The aim of this paper is to realize an in-depth analysis of the growth and poverty interactions in Syria …-2004 period growth was not equitable at both national and regional levels. When the objective of halving poverty in 2015 is used … other characteristic of the Syrian growth and poverty performance is the widening of the gap between urban and rural areas …

In this paper we re-examine poverty among working class households in inter-war London using the newly computerized …–31. First, we examine how the use of different poverty lines affects the number of households found to be in poverty. We then … analyse the effects of the inter-war social security system in relieving poverty. Finally, we estimate what difference it …

Multiple Dimensions of Poverty have been appended to household surveys by National Statistics Institutes in twelve African and …

a surge after the devaluation, poverty incidence plummeted slightly. Extreme poverty decreased, and growth has been pro … education, nutrition and health. The high degree of inequality is important for explaining the disappointing results in poverty … reduction. The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) gives priority to investment in education and health supply. In countries …