The multidimensionality of poverty is now widely acknowledged. Some recent studies in developed countries show that … there is a weak correlation between the monetary poverty approach and the household's subjective perception of their well … reference comparison group? Finally, how much weights do have new poverty dimensions such as vulnerability and social or …

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 …

Dimensions of Poverty have been appended to household surveys by National Statistics Institutes in twelve African and Latin …

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 …

-economic growth and the reduction of income inequality on monetary poverty. Our results emphasise the potential importance of the … population living in absolute poverty by 2015. The first section analyses the factors which lead to placing poverty reduction at … the core of development policies. The second section conducts a survey on the impact of growth and inequality on poverty …

This article investigates the evolution of urban poverty in its various dimensions in Côte d'Ivoire since the eighties …. The robustness of the results is checked using dominance criteria. An econometric analysis of the determinants of poverty … complements the analysis. The study shows that the dynamic of poverty in terms of existence conditions can significantly differ …