The business rights pillar of the Legal Empowerment of the Poor agenda is not preoccupied with equality of outcome; it …

The study focuses on the period 2004-09 during which Egypt experienced food crisis. The political economy context on … from international to domestic prices. The complexity of food price policy issues and their entanglement with poverty …, agricultural, and economic policies in Egypt together with the structural aspects of the food subsidy policies are discussed and …

on poverty reduction and income redistribution. We also present a static microsimulation to analyse the potential impacts …, intensity, and severity of poverty are, in the best of cases, moderate and, although their progressivity is high, their …

Using comparable fiscal incidence analysis, this paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty … targeted at the rich. While fiscal policy always reduces inequality, this is not the case with poverty. Fiscal policy increases … poverty in 4 countries using a US$1.25/day PPP poverty line, in 8 countries using a US$2.50/day line, and in 15 countries …

Social programmes for poverty alleviation involve eligibility rules and transfer rules that often proxy-means tests. We … propose to specify the estimator in connection with the poverty alleviation problem. Three distinct stages emerge from the …-values of living standards plugged into the poverty minimization programme to obtain the transfer amounts. We apply these …

was labour earnings for some employment categories. With the onset of the crisis of 2008, the poverty rate stopped falling …

2012 at a better level than at the beginning of the decade, with the exceptions of labour earnings and some poverty …