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 …

, Ghana, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan and the Philippines, to highlight key aspects of their characteristics and experience of …

poverty in the Philippines to these choices by presenting estimates for three alternative weighting schemes and three measures …Multidimensional poverty comparisons can be sensitive to the choice of welfare indicators, the weights assigned to the … indicators, as well as the aggregate poverty measure used. This paper examines the robustness of trends in multidimensional …

to poverty due to natural disasters, especially typhoons. A wind field model for the Philippines is employed to estimate … from the regression model are then used to estimate ex ante household vulnerability to poverty (the likelihood that … household consumption falls below the poverty line) in the event of future natural disasters of different intensities …

consequence of clientelist politics, ruling out alternate explanations (such as, for example, poverty driving both vote buying and … health outcomes). The data come from the Philippines, a country context that allows for measuring vote buying during …

of the crisis in the Philippines. The authors find increases in both the level and the depth of aggregate poverty. Income … impact in developing countries. This paper uses a micro-simulation approach to assess the poverty and distributional effects …

The paper develops a concept and a measure of the monetary capacity of a country to reduce its own poverty and shows … uses such indexes to rank countries according to their own capacity to reduce poverty. As shown in the empirical …

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