This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. Our method is based on estimation … methods that focus on the poor. Using data from Tunisia, we estimate ‘focused’ transfer schemes that highly improve anti-poverty … targeting performances. Post-transfer poverty can be substantially reduced with the new estimation method. In terms of P2, the …

The aim of this article is to analyse in depth the interactions of growth and poverty in Syria, which undertook reforms …’ terms but not in either relative or ‘strong absolute’ terms, owing to the increase in inequality. This can be explained … agriculture a decreasing one. Agricultural and land-policy reforms could have had a negative impact on poverty, despite their …

In this paper, a novel approach is implemented to quantify the effects on poverty and inequality of the financial … crisis that hit Indonesia in 1997. It relies on the combination of a microsimulation model and a standard CGE model. These …. The microsimulation model is based on a detailed representation of the real income generation mechanism at the household …

, nutrition and health. The high degree of inequality is important for explaining the disappointing results in poverty reduction … after the devaluation, poverty incidence plummeted slightly. Extreme poverty decreased, and growth has been pro-poor to some …. The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) gives priority to investment in education and health supply. In countries like …

geographic or not, can combine to explain persistent poverty in a given area. In this chapter we test the effect of local …

we show that the plausible policy decision depend on parameters describing the balance between poverty and program … exclusion risk. In the Tunisian case, only a much larger weight put on poverty relatively to exclusion could bring the decision …

results suggest that the spatial inequality dimension should be added to analyses of income and poverty transition dynamics. …Despite the increasing awareness concerning the importance of distinguishing chronic and transient poverty for policy … making, cross-country comparative studies of poverty dynamics in developing countries are virtually non-existent. The small …

How has poverty changed during the 1997-99 period, when the Peruvian economic performance deteriorated seriously under …-section comparisons of poverty indicators. In this paper we extend the analysis first by examining the robustness of these kind of … comparisons by considering sampling errors and stochastic dominance and second, by analyzing poverty transitions for households …

. These results suggest that the spatial « inequality » dimension should be added to analyses on income and poverty transition …Because of the lack of panel data there have been few studies on poverty dynamics in developing countries. Furthermore … objective is to identify the general and specific characteristics of chronic and transient poverty. We measure the importance of …