incidence) nor actually relate poverty indices to fiscal impact. This paper jointly and separately examines the redistributive … and poverty effects of the tax and transfer (education and health) systems in Cameroon. Broadly speaking, the tax system … reflect fiscal policies in that they are more progressive and poverty-reducing when we use relative poverty lines in rural …

This paper aims to analyse trends in poverty and inequality in seven African countries using an asset index constructed … rural areas, are thus required. Overall poverty has declined in five of the seven countries. The trends in urban and rural … poverty for the most part mirror these trends in overall poverty. Five of the seven countries experienced an improvement in …

of labour is near- zero and productivity of land provides only subsistence. Poverty keeps consumption and savings low …

DAD is designed to facilitate the analysis and the comparisons of social welfare, inequality, poverty and equity across … reforms to these programs) on poverty and equity. …

. We use the 2001 Haiti Living Conditions Survey for distributive analysis and poverty assessment to try to make manifest … that access to land does not help the poor escape poverty. Complementary to the inequality and poverty profiles constructed …

in the social spirit and prowess, so much needed to benefit from globalization. Acute poverty is the major structural … links to the market. Poverty cripples the very foundations of these possibilities. Therefore, under the prevailing …

Most of the earlier studies of poverty in Kenya have basically been static in nature. They have attempted to measure … necessarily provide a good indication of welfare stability over time. This study makes an empirical contribution to poverty … analysis in Kenya by incorporating poverty dynamics dimension. We first examine poverty dynamics using economic transition …

This paper analyses multidimensional aspects of child poverty in Kenya. We carry out poverty and inequality comparisons … of poverty comparisons show that: children with the lowest probability of survival are from households with the lowest … level of assets; and poverty orderings for child survival by assets are robust to the choice of the poverty line and to the …