"Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs aim to alleviate poverty through monetary and in-kind benefits, as well as … reduce future levels of poverty by encouraging investments in education, health, and nutrition. The success of CCT programs … at reducing poverty depends on whether, and the extent to which, cash transfers affect adult work incentives. The authors …

Half of the moderately poor, and one third of the extremely poor now live in urban areas in Mexico. While cities offer … public services. Yet, the urban-rural distinctions need to be seen as a continuum, where depth and characteristics of poverty … vary with settlement size. The objective of this report is to inform the design of urban poverty interventions. It is …

This study is part of the second phase of a long-term programmatic work on poverty in Mexico, in three phases being … carried out by the Bank at the request of the Government of Mexico. Reasons for a study on rural poverty, are because the size … and intensity of the phenomenon, poverty, and inequality in rural Mexico are a matter of concern not only from the well …

. Buddelmeyer and Skoufias use a unique data set from rural Mexico collected for the purpose of evaluating the impact of the … PROGRESA poverty alleviation program to examine the performance of a quasi-experimental estimator, the regression discontinuity … noneligible households in the control localities. This paper--a product of the Poverty and Gender Unit, Latin America and the …

authors assess the impact of policy shocks on poverty by using partial growth elasticities. They perform various policy … growth and poverty reduction in Niger. This paper--a product of Poverty Reduction and Economic Management 3, Africa Technical …

analyzes the impact of those reforms on poverty using micro-level simulations based on the most recent household consumption …