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 … that both the sign and the size of the elasticities can be quite sensitive to the choice of measurement assumptions (such …

Education is often promoted as the solution to poverty in the developing world. Yet, fiscal discipline has led to … reductions in public spending on education. We examine the poverty impacts of a cut in public subsidies to higher education … a higher education subsidy cut reduces welfare and increases poverty in Vietnam. While rural and agricultural households …

Much current debate focuses on the role of growth in alleviating poverty. However, the majority of computable general … equilibrium (CGE) models used in poverty and inequality analysis are static in nature. The inability of this kind of model to … account for growth (accumulation) effects makes them inadequate for long run analysis of the poverty and inequality impacts of …

The paper employs an integrated CGE-microsimulation approach to analyze the poverty effects of tariff reduction. The … results indicate that the tariff cuts implemented between 1994 and 2000 were generally poverty-reducing, primarily through the … (NCR), where poverty incidence is already lowest, than in other areas, especially rural, where poverty incidence is highest …

assessment of poverty alleviation programs, with the strength of each criterion being captured through its own inequity …-aversion parameter. This contrasts with the assessment of poverty alleviation programs done with simple under-coverage and leakage ratios … poverty alleviation policies. We find inter alia that the social ranking of commodity and socio-demographic targeting in …