authors assess the impact of policy shocks on poverty by using partial growth elasticities. They perform various policy … growth and poverty reduction in Niger. …

for half of economic growth. Finally, institutions can affect poverty and equity, although the effects seem generally …

This study applies the cost-of-basic-needs approach to estimate food and total poverty lines for the Brazilian case … representative group of the population. The preferred results estimate the value of the food poverty line at R$258 (in 2018 urban … Southeast prices), and the lower total poverty line (covering also nonfood necessities) at R$455. Robustness checks show that …