incidence analysis suggests that increased spending on social assistance enhances the probability of moving out of poverty and … reduces the probability of moving into poverty. However, double difference estimates (based on a mimicked randomized … household welfare or reduce poverty. Double difference estimates point to a negative impact on welfare. Parametric estimates do …

examines the impacts -- half a century later -- of a mass education program conducted by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in …

The paper develops a concept and a measure of the monetary capacity of a country to reduce its own poverty and shows … uses such indexes to rank countries according to their own capacity to reduce poverty. As shown in the empirical …

Recent National Sample Surveys point to significant poverty reduction in India since 2004/05, with a marked … subgroup comprising non-poor households facing a heightened risk of falling into poverty. The paper documents a strong pattern … of upward mobility out of poverty and vulnerability into the middle class, with a noticeable acceleration between 2009 …

The measurement of multidimensional poverty has been advocated by most welfare scholars and is experiencing a growth in … one of the least explored approaches -- Multiple Correspondence Analysis -- to assess multidimensional poverty in Morocco … poverty: it generates a matrix of "weights" based on the variance-covariance matrix of all welfare dimensions selected and …

The paper shows how Labor Force Surveys can be used effectively to estimate poverty rates using Household Expenditure … 2007), the paper estimates quarterly poverty rates for the period 2001-2010 by imputing household expenditures into the … Labor Force Surveys. The results are encouraging. The methodology is able to accurately reproduce official poverty …

global warming, on poverty and inequality, paying special attention to data sources as well as empirical methods. While … studies consistently find negative impacts of higher temperature on poverty across different geographical regions, with higher … chronic poverty than transient poverty. The results are robust to different model specifications and measures of chronic …