This report provides a dynamic poverty assessment of Mauritania between 2008 and 2014, the time period included between … to provide a comprehensive poverty profile for either 2008 or 2014 but to respond to specific questions that arose in the … course of the preparation of the Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) for Mauritania. This poverty assessment was designed to …

workfare scheme in which the government acts as the employer of last resort. Is this a cost-effective policy against poverty …? Using a microeconometric model of the casual labor market in rural India, the authors find that a guaranteed wage rate … sufficient for a typical poor family to reach the poverty line would bring the annual poverty rate down from 34 percent to 25 …