Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create … eligibility rule of the Bolsa Familia program in Brazil, one of the oldest and largest conditional cash transfers in the world, to …

, inequality, and government spending on poverty reduction. A new panel dataset has been assembled on inequality and poverty that …

This paper provides a brief and selective overview of research on the links between macroeconomic policies and poverty …

scheme that could serve as a model to alleviate poverty in developed economies in the transitional phase. The proposed scheme … from poverty. The concept of the simplified model is protection against poverty through income maintenance that is …

countries, including how countries balance the primary objective of poverty alleviation against the desire to both manage the … employment incentives over the primary objective of poverty alleviation. Many countries can reduce this trade off by combining …

Using micro-data from household expenditure surveys, we document the evolution of consumption poverty in the United … poverty has not declined materially since the 1980s and even increased for the young. We then analyze which social and … economic factors help explain the extent of poverty in the U.S. using probit, tobit, and machine learning techniques. Our …

Absolute poverty has dropped markedly in Bulgaria but income inequality has increased substantially in the aftermath of …