This study applies the cost-of-basic-needs approach to estimate food and total poverty lines for the Brazilian case …. Using detailed data on expenditures from a 2017/18 household budget survey and caloric information from the Brazilian Table … representative group of the population. The preferred results estimate the value of the food poverty line at R$258 (in 2018 urban …

poverty will certainly be very diverse, but the average impact on poverty depends upon the balance between these two effects …, and can only be determined by looking at real-world data. Results using household data for ten observations on nine low …-income countries show that the short-run impacts of higher staple food prices on poverty differ considerably by commodity and by …

This paper investigates the relationship of household income with child labor. The analysis uses a rich dataset … on the household. The author develops a simple model that relates child labor to household income, preferences, and …

Does child labor decrease as household income rises? This question has important implications for the design of policy … a small increase in household income on child labor should be concentrated among children most vulnerable to … the cash transfer. However, total household expenditures do not increase with the transfer and appear to fall in …

receive remittances, these resource flows do tend to reduce the level and depth of poverty. At the household level, a review … United States, OECD-Europe) are more likely to receive international remittances, and that while the level of poverty in a …

This paper explores the impact of remittances on poverty, education, and health in 11 Latin American countries using … nationally representative household surveys and making an explicit attempt to account for one of the inherent costs associated … following: (1) regardless of the counterfactual used remittances appear to lower poverty levels in most recipient countries; (2 …

household labor income and poverty in Brazil. The authors first estimate the extent of price transmission from world markets to … employment depending on worker characteristics. Finally, they measure the impact on household income of a 10 percent increase in …

vulnerability as expected poverty and illustrates a methodology to empirically assess household vulnerability using pseudo panel …Considerations of risk and vulnerability are key to understanding the dynamics of poverty. This study conceives …

The authors compare three approaches to linking representative-household macro models with micro household income data … in terms of their implications for measuring the poverty and distributional effects of policy shocks. These approaches … different results in absolute terms, they show that potential differences in the measurement of distributional and poverty …

dynamics and related issues such as the propensity of earners to fall into poverty or vulnerability to poverty because of … measures of interest, such as an individual's vulnerability to poverty. The results show that model parameters recovered from … this case pseudo-panel measures of vulnerability to poverty, reflect closely those based on actual panel data. …