This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. Our method is based on estimation … methods that focus on the poor. Using data from Tunisia, we estimate ‘focused’ transfer schemes that highly improve anti-poverty … targeting performances. Post-transfer poverty can be substantially reduced with the new estimation method. In terms of P2, the …

we show that the plausible policy decision depend on parameters describing the balance between poverty and program … exclusion risk. In the Tunisian case, only a much larger weight put on poverty relatively to exclusion could bring the decision …

potential impacts. This study simulates the impact of alternative cash transfer programs on school attendance and poverty among … reduce child poverty and encourage school attendance. If means-testing is not feasible, then programs targeting the children …

Chile provides an interesting setting to analyze vulnerability to poverty, especially today, after the last poverty … count presented in 2013 by the Ministry of Planning. After twenty years of declining poverty, national indicators showed an … increase in poverty from 13% in 2006 to 14% in 2011. Using the CASEN panel data set, this paper explores some of poverty …

This chapter was written in 2007 in order to inform the diagnostic of Liberia’s Poverty Reduction Strategy. Little has …

This paper aims to facilitate the understanding of the phenomena of poverty and inequality in the Peruvian society and …

because of lack of good data. This chapter was also written in 2007 to inform the diagnostic of Liberia’s Poverty Reduction …

said that expanding educational facilities and improving quality of education are key instruments and reducing poverty is a … poverty and education and many more international studies revealed that improvement in education reducing poverty resulted in … regional balanced development. This paper aims to analyze the regional disparities in reducing poverty and increase in literacy …

decomposition. Results in deprivation analysis and inequalities related reveal some new insights about the poverty situation in the … country, which contrasts with the results available from traditional poverty analysis. We observe respectively, high …