differences on the measurement of poverty, there is little reliable evidence on how these factors actually affect poverty … costs are accounted for by using municipal housing price indices or by replacing the country-specific poverty line with … municipal-specific poverty lines. Applying Norwegian register data for the period 1993-2001, we find that disregarding the value …

, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality … and poverty rates by almost one-third. However, adjusting for differences in needs for public services across population … subgroups offsets about half the inequality reduction and some of the poverty decrease. …

, education and childcare expenditure on estimates of income inequality and poverty for 24 European countries. The empirical … results show significant effects of public in-kind transfers on the level of income inequality and poverty for all countries …. Over the period 2006-2018, inequality and poverty estimates display rather different trends across European countries. …

-effective way to identify income-poor beneficiaries of targeted anti-poverty programs. However, their usefulness depends on whether …-parametric regression-techniques, we show that the resulting leakage can largely be confined to the non-poor close to the poverty line …. However, simulating the impact on poverty measures of a uniform transfer to beneficiaries across inclusion rates suggests that …

implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … poverty has declined greatly but by others it has hardly declined at all, even over the fifty years. The global middle class …

A key question in the design of anti-poverty programs is to what extent they should be targeted. Empirical evaluations … based on an imperfect poverty classifier based on proxy means tests results in very distinct 'optimal' beneficiary shares … when these measures are used as a decision criterion. Implications from poverty simulations are sensitive to assumptions …

forest cover change and alleviate poverty. We examine protected areas in the Peruvian Amazon using high-resolution satellite …

We estimate local effects of Payment for Environmental Services (PES) programs on poverty in Costa Rica between 2007 …, this reflects countervailing forces. We find that PES coverage increases poverty in low-slope places and decreases poverty … increased or decreased poverty substantially in Costa Rica. Policymakers could increase the impact on poverty by focusing their …

forest cover change and alleviate poverty. We examine protected areas in the Peruvian Amazon using high-resolution satellite …