We study the effect of decentralization on the access to some poverty-related public services in Benin. Compiling panel … services. Decentralization in Benin contributes positively to the reduction of poverty by improving the average access to … poverty-related services. However, the devil is in the details, as decentralization seems to increase inequality among local …

This paper considers the long-run patterns of poverty in the United States from the early 1960s to 2010. Our results … contradict previous studies that have argued that poverty has shown little improvement over time or that anti-poverty efforts … have been ineffective. We find that moving from traditional income-based measures of poverty to a consumption-based measure …

Standard measures of poverty may reveal nothing about whether the poorest of the poor are being lifted-up or left … the developing world and the US. Across developing countries, a higher mean income comes with a higher floor. The bulk of …

Scholars emphasize that poverty in Britain has risen sharply since the late 1970s. Meanwhile in the United States, both … official figures and traditional poverty scholars report sharp declines in poverty. We seek to provide a comparison of poverty …, or policy-account for the observed changes in poverty in the two nations and what role could policy play in reducing …

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 … hybrid social protection policy, which devotes resources to funding “state of the world contingent transfers” (SWCTs) to …

poverty cyclicality than non-Hispanic white, married, or native household heads with native spouses. Our findings hold across …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 …

This essay surveys the evidence on the linkages between globalization and poverty. I focus on two measures of …

standard. The vast bulk of poverty, both absolute and relative, is now found in the developing world.Institutional subscribers …The paper critically assesses prevailing measures of global poverty. A welfarist interpretation of global poverty lines … falling incidence of poverty globally over the last 30 years. This is mainly due to lower absolute poverty counts in the …

household's business. We also present some evidence of increases in profits and a reduction in consumption and savings. There is … no evidence that the program increased overall household income …

The share of people living in extreme poverty fell from 36 percent in 1990 to 10 percent in 2015 but has continued to … are also where the least evidence exists on how to tackle poverty. This paper investigates whether the Targeting the Ultra … Poor program can lift households out of poverty in a fragile context: Afghanistan. In 80 villages in Balkh province, 1 …