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 …

concluded that divorce has little effect on women’s average household income. Employing an Abadie (2003) technique that allows … increases the probability that a woman lives in a household with income in the bottom quartile. While women partially offset the …

poverty alleviation program began in 2001 which finances public investments in designated poor villages based on participatory … village planning. We use matching methods and a panel household and village data set with national coverage to compare changes …

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 …

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 …

household and individual welfare (including potential differences between household members) and then identifies six trade-to-poverty …This paper traces the links from trade shocks to poverty in developing countries. It considers the determinants of …

Sen's axiomatic approach to poverty measurement and is based upon an aggregate poverty index that is additively …Numerous authors have pointed out the importance of taking into consideration the intra-household distribution of … resources in the analysis of poverty. Most empirical studies of poverty, however, assume an equal sharing of resources between …

percentage of households in poverty. He attributed the bulk of this decline to government welfare reforms enacted during and … after the War. Some observers have been uneasy about these striking results, especially with the rediscovery of poverty in … the 1960s. In this paper we re-examine the surviving records from the 1950 survey, making the poverty line more consistent …