The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can … be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and … statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across distributions. The tests, which can take into account the complex …

timing of social welfare payments in Montreal, Canada compared to the timing in Bangor, Maine. We find some statistically …

transferts aux particuliers à l’allégement de la pauvreté au Québec et au Canada. Cette contribution est départagée en un produit … d’allégement de la pauvreté par dollar dépensé. On constate aussi que, relativement au reste du Canada, les programmes …

Ce papier estime l'évolution de la pauvreté au Québec et au Canada de 1996 à 2005 ainsi que les effets des principaux … certains organismes officiels tels que Statistique Canada, l'Institut de la Statistique du Québec et le Ministère de l …

or that of the change in inequality on poverty. During the last few years, there was a growing interest to perform such … Goal (MDG, henceforth), that is to cut poverty by half. As is illustrated in this paper, estimated poverty changes may be … a new numerical method to allow to estimate accurately the impact of distributive changes on poverty. …

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

employment, poverty and inequality. To evaluate impacts on poverty and inequality, we use a CGE Top Down approach. The paper … unemployment as well as a fall of poverty for each population groups. …

the impact of trade liberalization on agricultural growth, poverty and income distribution. Conventional models ignore … however the channels linking technical change in agriculture, trade openness and poverty. This study seeks to incorporate … poverty and equity. The analysis uses the Latent Class Stochastic Frontier Model (LCSFM) and the metafrontier function to …

Variations in aggregate poverty indices can be due to differences in average poverty intensity, to changes in the … total change in poverty into a sum of indices of each of these three components. This decomposition can serve inter alia to … integrate horizontal and vertical equity criteria in the poverty alleviation assessment of social and economic programs. The use …

This paper explores the link between poverty and inequality through an analysis of the poverty impact of changes in … empirical linkages between poverty, growth and inequality. It might also help design policies to improve both equity and welfare … as the choice of inequality and poverty aversion parameters, and that of the poverty line). The elasticities are also …