The paper develops a concept and a measure of the monetary capacity of a country to reduce its own poverty and shows … to rank countries according to their own monetary poverty reduction capacity. As shown in the empirical application, this …

in Colombia and Peru. Relying on household survey data, we simulate the potential impact of the transfer on poverty … Nested Logit Model. Our results show that a NCP in Colombia and Peru contributes to the reduction of poverty and inequality …

-record data sets for multiple countries, in addition to providing summary statistics from those data, including poverty and … addressed by a truly global micro-data base for studying poverty and inequality. …

How much redistribution and poverty reduction is being accomplished in Latin America through social spending, subsidies … comparable methodology yields the following results. Direct taxes and cash transfers reduce inequality and poverty by nontrivial … offset the poverty-reducing impact of cash transfers. When one includes the in-kind transfers in education and health, valued …

central tendency, inequality and poverty and also measures of the degree of pro-poorness of a shock- or policy-induced change …

percent urban, higher food prices still led to a greater incidence and depth of poverty at the national level. …

argue that conventional wisdom may be wrong. First, the extent and effectiveness of income redistribution and poverty …

The aim of this paper is to explain why poverty and material deprivation in South Africa are significantly higher among … those of African descent than among whites. To do so, we estimate the conditional levels of poverty and deprivation Africans … show that the racial gap in poverty and deprivation can be attributed to the cumulative disadvantaged characteristics of …