optimal anti-poverty budgetary rules for two kinds of intervention, direct income transfers and wage employment programmes. …

poverty by directly increasing household income. Using a panel of rural households in Mexico from October 1998 to November … reduce future consumption poverty we asked if transfers are likely to reach people whose conditions are prone to worsen in … the future. We used vulnerability to consumption poverty to quantify the extent to which risks and the more permanent …

cumulative effects of these contextual changes, poverty programmes and community efforts, the favela population has continued to …

authority of the elites and worsening poverty by implementing ‘anti-poor’ policies. This paper concludes that the success of …

to impute missing and interval-censored values in the 2000 and 2006 Labour Force Surveys, and compares poverty estimates … obtained under several different methods of reconciling coarsened earnings data. Estimates of poverty amongst the employed are …

, is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate … of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the microeconomic level. Testing a model of poverty change on a panel … of data for more than 80 countries from 1981 to 2005, we find that income instability results in a lower poverty …

urbanization, and speculates on its impact on the quality of life and poverty in the context of Asian countries. After experiencing …

poverty, as opposed to growth alone. The contribution of a sector to poverty reduction is shown to depend on its own growth … evidence indicates that agriculture is significantly more effective than nonagriculture in reducing poverty among the poorest … of the poor (as reflected in the $1-day squared poverty gap). It is also up to 3.2 times better at reducing $1-day …