Social policy in Mexico has focused on identifying and supporting chronically poor households. Yet, Mexico has a … significant number of households that are just above the poverty line who are not eligible, by definition, for antipoverty … programs and are at risk of falling back into poverty in the event of an economic crisis or shocks like loss of employment and …

Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs aim to alleviate poverty through monetary and in-kind benefits, as well as … reduce future levels of poverty by encouraging investments in education, health, and nutrition. The success of CCT programs … at reducing poverty depends on whether, and the extent to which, cash transfers affect adult work incentives. The authors …

this paper the authors use a unique data set from rural Mexico collected for the purposes of evaluating the impact of the … PROGRESA poverty alleviation program to examine the performance of a quasi-experimental estimator, the Regression Discontinuity …

This paper assesses the impact of fiscal policy on the incidence, depth, and severity of poverty, and examines whether … combined effect of taxes and social spending helped substantially to reduce poverty and inequality in Poland in 2014, in line … capacity to redistribute, it had a relatively weak capacity to reduce poverty given the resources at its disposal, and this was …

This paper assesses the potential impact of antimicrobial resistance on global economic growth and poverty. The … poverty. Under the high antimicrobial resistance scenario, by 2030, an additional 24.1 million people would be extremely poor …

This paper presents empirical evidence of the profound and long-term damages from adverse natural events on poverty. It … disasters. It discusses detrimental long-term consequences for the income and welfare of the poor and the presence of poverty …

In the absence of household level data on participation in public programs, spending allocations and poverty measures …

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 …