The poverty impact of indirect tax reforms is analyzed using sequential stochastic dominance methods. This allows …

The poverty impact of indirect tax reforms is analyzed using sequential stochastic dominance methods. This allows …

Variations in aggregate poverty indices can be due to differences in average poverty intensity, to changes in the … total change in poverty into a sum of indices of each of these three components. This decomposition can serve inter alia to … integrate horizontal and vertical equity criteria in the poverty alleviation assessment of social and economic programs. The use …

of improving social welfare or decreasing poverty for large classes of social welfare and poverty indices. It also … derives estimators of critical poverty lines and economic efficiency ratios which can be used to characterize socially …

assessment of poverty alleviation programs, with the strength of each criterion being captured through its own inequity …-aversion parameter. This contrasts with the assessment of poverty alleviation programs done with simple under-coverage and leakage ratios … poverty alleviation policies. We find inter alia that the social ranking of commodity and socio-demographic targeting in …

of improving social welfare or decreasing poverty for large classes of social welfare and poverty indices. It also … derives estimators of critical poverty lines and economic efficiency ratios which can be used to characterize socially …

The poverty impact of indirect tax reforms is analyzed using sequential stochastic dominance methods. This allows …

This paper describes the effects of general food subsidies on poverty in Tunisia, as revealed by household survey data … that targeting by commodities is not an effective way to fight against poverty and so, it is unlikely that restructuring … investigate the impact on poverty of a more targeted transfer scheme, based on proxy means-tests, using an appropriate econometric …

improving social welfare or decreasing poverty for large classes of social welfare and poverty indices. We also derive … estimators of critical poverty lines and economic efficiency ratios which can be used to characterize socially-efficient tax …