instrument to break the inheritance of poverty. Yet, the cost of these programs tends to be quite high so that increasing their … targeting on poverty, as currently done, would be implementable and create huge efficiency gains. To start with, this would … transfers across beneficiaries would result in a 72% efficiency gain for that cohort over targeting on poverty and making …

impacts are found along three dimensions: degree of poverty, parents’ education and distance to school. The children of …

While access to land is back high on the policy agenda as an instrument to attack poverty, strong reservations have … establishes the conditions under which access to land can help reduce poverty in rural communities where poverty is extensive. We … land increases welfare on average by 1.3 times the earnings of an agricultural worker. In addition, the marginal welfare …

Empirical evidence has shown that off-farm non-agricultural (OFNA) employment offers a major pathway from poverty for …