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 …

after the devaluation, poverty incidence plummeted slightly. Extreme poverty decreased, and growth has been pro-poor to some …, nutrition and health. The high degree of inequality is important for explaining the disappointing results in poverty reduction …. 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 …

-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 …

poverty. This context prevails widely in MENA countries, where poverty is high and the level of dependancy is also prominent …

Since the 1994 devaluation, growth resumed in Mali without any significant decrease of poverty. This may be explained … by the high level of inequality, which has increased in the recent period. The poverty reduction strategy described in …