We interpret social transfers broadly as a set of measures to reduce or relieve poverty, and study how well this … the countries for a range of definitions of the poverty threshold. The methods are also applied to two subpopulations of …

poverty. Results from estimating probability models indicate that social assistance receipt is strongly linked to joblessness …. However, as the Di Bao payments typically are small and many of the urban poor are not receivers, much urban poverty remains …

analyses of low-income populations. We focus on the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and … understates the effects of anti-poverty programs and changes our understanding of program targeting, often making it seem that … data rather than survey data alone, the poverty reducing effect of all programs together is nearly doubled while the effect …

Programs to fight poverty aim at allowing individuals to support themselves ex-post, when they are not part of the …

This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries … analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates of the poverty reduction impact are presented in a normalized and un …

To mitigate the impact of the 2008-2010 global financial crisis on vulnerable households, the Government of Latvia … dearth of income-generating opportunities in Latvia; thus the program provided temporary employment opportunities and helped … the unemployed mitigate the impact of the crisis. However, relative to the depth of the crisis in Latvia, the Workplaces …

This paper estimates the effect of enrollment in a large scale anti-poverty program in Colombia, Familias en Acción (FA … mechanisms, as the laws recently passed by the Colombian government, that avoid successful anti-poverty schemes from being …

transfers may help break the cycle of intergenerational poverty …