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 …

, the poverty rate, or the incidence of regular wage employment. The results suggest that the highways caused an increase in …

and poverty levels, as well as to the misclassification of some individuals as regards to their poverty status. Using a … overall poverty rate, but individual poverty statuses are affected. Intra-household consumption inequalities accounts for 14 … intra-household inequality and individual risk of poverty …

and policies. The importance of the underlying poverty and distributional issues creates a need for relevant and reliable … framework for simulating the poverty implications of the Dutch disease, a change in the terms of trade and budgetary policy. The … open economy. It is observed that, while aggregate welfare and poverty effects may be negligible, the structural and …

-farm wage employment and non-farm self-employment are welfare improving and poverty reducing. However, households at the lower … support the promotion of the rural non-farm economy for poverty reduction purposes, they indicate that targeted interventions … curbing rural poverty …

An extensive literature on poverty traps suggests that high levels of poverty deter growth. However, a seemingly basic … implication of the underlying theoretical models, namely that countries suffering from higher levels of poverty should grow less … affect growth in opposing directions. Because inequality and poverty are different aspects of the income distribution …

.3 million people (nearly 1 percent of the world's poor) into poverty …

exogenous variation around eligibility age was exploited to uncover the causal effects of this expansion on extreme poverty and … of the elderly being extreme poor, but it also reduced the extreme poverty gap, and the extreme poverty severity indexes … of the elderly population. These effects on extreme poverty are generalizable to all individuals of the treated household …