-targeting transfers to poor people. This incentive argument does not imply, however, that workfare is more cost-effective against poverty … that for the same budget, workfare has less impact on poverty than either a basic-income scheme (providing the same … transfer to all) or uniform transfers based on the government's below-poverty-line ration cards. For workfare to dominate other …

developing world, with some countries, and some people, more vulnerable than others. It also threatens to have lasting impacts …

The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the …

points to the dominant role of Asia in accounting for the bulk of the world's poverty reduction since 1981. The evolution of …, this paper reviews the evidence on levels and recent trends in global poverty and income inequality. It documents the … negative correlations between both poverty and inequality indices, on the one hand, and mean income per capita on the other. It …

This paper proposes a new method for ex ante analysis of the poverty impacts arising from policy reforms. Three … innovation, which is the establishment of a unique poverty level of utility and an appropriately modified set of Foster …-Greer-Thorbecke poverty measures. With these tools in hand, the authors are able to calculate the change in the head-count of poverty, poverty …

of per capita income has important implications for the relative roles of income growth and inequality changes in poverty … reduction. When poverty reduction is the overriding policy objective, poorer and relatively equal countries may be willing to …

The relative contribution of a sector to poverty reduction is shown to depend on its direct and indirect growth effects …-agriculture by reviewing the literature and by analyzing cross-country national accounts and poverty data from household surveys …. Special attention is given to Sub-Saharan Africa. While the direct growth effect of agriculture on poverty reduction is likely …

trade policies would lift large numbers of developing country farm households out of poverty. In the majority of cases these … gains are not outweighed by the poverty-increasing effects of higher food prices among other households. Agricultural … analysis indicates that maximal trade-led poverty reductions occur when developing countries participate more fully in …

the dynamics of the cotton sector and the dynamics of poverty and evaluate to what extent cotton can work as a vehicle for … poverty alleviation. They find that cotton can indeed act as an effective mechanism for increased household welfare. They also …

The authors illustrate some of the potential consequences of the World Trade Organization's Doha Round of multilateral … trade negotiations on incomes and poverty globally. Using the global LINKAGE model to generate changes in domestic and … poverty line that would accompany various reform scenarios. When accompanied by additional information about the elasticity of …