. A case study for India’s massive National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme indicates lower impacts on poverty than … in terms of the impact on poverty for a given budgetary outlay. …

In what is probably the largest cash transfer program in the world today China’s Dibao program aims to fill all poverty … gaps. In theory, the program creates a poverty trap, with 100% benefit withdrawal rate (BWR). But is that what we see in …, and is also lower than the rate implied by optimal income tax models for poverty reduction. The paper discusses likely …

The traditional approach to poverty measurement puts no explicit weight on success at increasing the typical level of … available surveys for the developing world over 1981-2011, the expected value of the floor is about half the $1.25 a day poverty …