incidence analysis suggests that increased spending on social assistance enhances the probability of moving out of poverty and … reduces the probability of moving into poverty. However, double difference estimates (based on a mimicked randomized … household welfare or reduce poverty. Double difference estimates point to a negative impact on welfare. Parametric estimates do …

public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing, on the large … evaluating the effects of RPW or PDS on poverty. We found significant and negative effects of household participation in RPW and … food for work programmes on poverty, undernutrition (e.g. protein) and vulnerability in 1993 and 2004. Indeed, poverty and …

Analysts of the poverty phenomenon in Pakistan encounter a major problem in analysing the trends in poverty, as no …-term series by estimating a series of caloric poverty estimates from 1990-91 to 2001 based on a consistent methodology and the … large HIES/PIHS databases. The paper provides a review of past studies on poverty. It points out major methodological …