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 …

In this paper I examine the trend in income inequality and poverty among the self-employed workers in Mexico over the … last two decades (1984?2002). This is the period over which Mexico opened its economy to the global market through trade … and investment liberalization. For the first decade following the liberalization, inequality and poverty among the self …

The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African … government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article … specifies government.s stated target of halving poverty by 2014 in terms of specific measures of the poverty gap and poverty …

We describe a new method of facilitating inequality and poverty analysis of grouped distributional data by allowing …

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