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 …

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 …