Poverty maps are a useful tool for the targeting of social programs on areas with high concentrations of poverty …. However, a static focus on poverty ignores the temporal dimension of poverty. Thus, current nonpoor households still face … substantial welfare volatility and are at risk of becoming poor in the face of shocks. We combine the methods of poverty mapping …

distribution system, and the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. The latter two are among the largest anti-poverty …

analyzes the impact of those reforms on poverty using micro-level simulations based on the most recent household consumption …

Fiscal policy is central to not only macroeconomic stability and growth, but also to poverty and inequality reduction … insufficient to compensate for the effect of taxes, resulting in net increases in poverty. In the context of upper …

This report profiles poverty and assesses the performance of the social assistance (SA) system in the Turkish Cypriot … determinants of poverty in the TCc and on the effectiveness of the community's social assistance programs, with the ultimate … objective of putting forward recommendations on how to improve policy alleviating measures. The poverty profile developed in …