providing an analysis of the implications of poverty dynamics for the graduation of beneficiaries of Mexico's Oportunidades …Social protection programmes have emerged as one of the most important anti-poverty policy strategies in developing … countries. Their effects on poverty and well-being have been widely studied. Yet, there is limited knowledge on how a transfer …

This paper analyses the land tenure reform that took place in Mexico in 1992 and its PROCEDE programme (Ejido Rights … reduce the poverty of peasants and indigenous people. Almost 30 years after this reform was enacted, it is necessary to …

A cash transfer programme 'Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty' has been implemented with the aim of addressing … poverty and vulnerability in Ghana. This study looks at the impact of this conditional cash transfer programme on households …

This paper assesses the effects on poverty and inequality of the alternative targeting approaches that Zambia's Social … government introduced support based on giving actual cash through social cash transfers aimed at reducing poverty and … of social cash transfers, nationwide extreme poverty would be 1.6 percentage points higher than otherwise. The results …

middle income countries that examined optimal approaches to reduce child poverty using universal categorical child allowances … margins of the poverty line were found to be small and robustness and sensitivity tests were done to accompany simulation …. Simulations found that individual level allowances reduce poverty more than household level allowances. Such individual level …

. The paper underscores the principles of the poverty focus of social assistance and presents an overview of existence … evidence of first- and second-order effects of social assistance, particularly in the domains of poverty, education, health and …

poverty. Yet, the question of whether access to credit leads to poverty reduction and improved wellbeing remains open. To … income, consumption, human capital and assets, and, ultimately, a reduction in poverty. …

the differences across the income distribution and impacts on measures of poverty and inequality. The paper also evaluates … experienced by higher-income households. Additionally, the estimates point to moderate increases in both the headcount poverty … rate and the extent of poverty, as measured by the poverty gap. Automatic stabilizers had a limited effect in cushioning …