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 …

poverty regularly. This paper develops an economically intuitive and inexpensive methodology to do so in the absence of …

alleviation at the national level, while Cameroon's domestic trade liberalization has adverse poverty and inequality impacts …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 …

trends scenario. Finally, rebalancing reduces the prevalence of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa compared with the isolated … negative effects of China's slowdown, which slightly increase the incidence of poverty. Overall, China's slowdown and … poverty, but the extent of this varies by country …

compared with realized poverty estimates. The micro-simulation model performs well in predicting poverty dynamics during 2009 …The continued poverty impact of the financial crisis in Serbia is difficult to establish beyond 2010 because of the … lack of survey data. This paper tackles this difficulty. It uses a micro-simulation approach that accounts for a key …

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

Measuring the poverty and distributional impact of the global crisis for developing countries is not easy, given the … addressing questions like who are being affected by the crisis and by how much, and who are vulnerable to falling into poverty if … the crisis deepens? This paper develops a simple micro-simulation method, modifying models from existing economic …