household welfare or reduce poverty. Double difference estimates point to a negative impact on welfare. Parametric estimates do … not yield any consistent significant impact on welfare or poverty. The author concludes that the growth in population …This paper assesses the impact of social assistance benefits on household welfare in Moldova. Ignoring standard issues …

Following the endorsement of the Millennium Development Goals, there is an increasing demand for methods to track … poverty regularly. This paper develops an economically intuitive and inexpensive methodology to do so in the absence of …

The aim of this paper is to assess the possible impacts of the Doha Round of negotiations on poverty in Cameroon …. During the recent period of economic recovery, Cameroon has enjoyed a sharp decline in poverty with the headcount index … model which involves 10,992 households in order to address this question. The Doha Round is found to be poverty reducing for …

Cameroon is engaged in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) process, which emphasizes increased focus on poverty … reduction in the design and implementation of growth and adjustment strategies. The Integrated Macroeconomic Model for Poverty … process and quantifying poverty reduction strategies. Drawing on that framework, this paper provides a detailed financial …

This paper estimates the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral and North-South-East-West Highways in India on welfare …, the poverty rate, or the incidence of regular wage employment. The results suggest that the highways caused an increase in …

This paper presents axiomatic arguments to make the case for distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures … axiomatic justification for distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures. Given the nonlinear structure of these … unambiguously poverty-increasing and they are also invariant to changes in the distribution of a given set of deprivations amongst …

, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying these trends is a process of mobility, with 40-60 percent of the … poverty remain vulnerable. Most of those who are poor were also poor in the preceding period and, thus, are likely to be …

Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad … poverty estimates based on administrative data that fall within a 95 percent margin of poverty estimates based on survey …