Standard measures of poverty may reveal nothing about whether the poorest of the poor are being lifted-up or left …

Progressively targeted cash transfers remain the dominant policy response to chronic poverty in developing countries …. But are there alternative social protection policies that might have larger poverty impacts over time for the same public … vulnerable, but non-poor households in the wake of negative shocks, can result in lower rates of poverty in the medium term than …

In this paper, we comprehensively examine the effects of the Great Recession on child poverty, with particular … panel data model and data for 2000 to 2014, we estimate the relationship between the business cycle and child poverty, and … that the safety net provides protection; that is, the cyclicality of after-tax-and-transfer child poverty is significantly …

that this is one of the reasons for persistent poverty and very high income inequality in Botswana today. This leaves us …This paper decomposes Botswana's growth from the late 1960s through 2010 into a within-sector and a between …-sector (structural change) component. We find that during the 70s and 80s Botswana's rapid economic growth was characterized by …

trends in program participation, income, and poverty among immigrants (and natives). We pay particular attention to the …

poverty. In particular, we focus on the two largest programs over this period: the U.S. EITC and the Canadian NCB/CCTB. In … light of these policy changes, we examine trends in employment and poverty of the most affected families -- single mothers … relative trends are mainly explained by differences in the labor market conditions. Poverty rates for single mothers also …