capture different aspects of people's opportunity sets, for which observed income may be a poor proxy. One implication is that … the cross-country literature on income inequality and growth may have been barking up the wrong tree, and that alternative …

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 …

Brazil's slow pace of poverty reduction over the last two decades reflects both low growth and a low growth elasticity … of poverty reduction. Using GDP data disaggregated by state and sector for a twenty-year period, this paper finds … considerable variation in the poverty-reducing effectiveness of growth-across sectors, across space, and over time. Growth in the …

Measured by the Gini coefficient, income inequality in Brazil rose from 0.57 in 1981 to 0.63 in 1989, before falling …). Poverty incidence also followed an inverted U-curve over the past quarter century, rising from 0.30 in 1981 to 0.33 in 1993 … social assistance transfers targeted to the poor; and a possible decline in racial inequality. Although poverty dynamics …

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 …

income or expenditure, such as the poverty gap or the Gini index of inequality. The newly produced time-series of poverty …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 …

. Further, there is now a consensus on adopting more ambitious goals on poverty reduction. Defining social protection as a … collection of programs that address risk, vulnerability, inequality and poverty through a system of transfers in cash or in kind …: Indicators of Resilience and Equity (ASPIRE) data set. Focusing on the goal of ending poverty, the paper estimates that social …