a wide spectrum of poverty analysts. The statistical properties of the various estimators are also derived in order to … Mexico's indirect tax system. This leads to the identification of several possible pro-poor tax reforms in that country. It … also shows how the pro-poorness of a tax reform depends on one's conception of poverty as well as on the revenue and …

We evaluate progress in President's Johnson's War on Poverty. We do so relative to the scientifically arbitrary but … policy relevant 20 percent baseline poverty rate he established for 1963. No existing poverty measure fully captures poverty … reductions based on the standard that President Johnson set. To fill this gap, we develop a Full-income Poverty Measure with …

, stable, and non-means-tested benefit. Its main aims are to mitigate poverty and subsequently promote self …

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 …

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 …

exploiting the discontinuity in the assignment of a welfare program in Mexico. The in-cash transfer is found to significantly …

health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … in poverty on infant survival. We identify a significant within-state relationship which persists conditional upon state … income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty …