in extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression …

data spanning the crisis are also used. The authors find that the program reduced aggregate unemployment, though it … partially compensate many losers from the crisis, and reduced extreme poverty …

As global extreme poverty has fallen -- by one measure, from close to 2 billion people in 1990 to about 700 million … extreme poverty. In the 1960s and 1970s, when close to half of the world was living in extreme poverty, the approach that … investing in education, health, and family planning. When extreme poverty rates came down?first in East Asia and then in other …

-targeting transfers to poor people. This incentive argument does not imply, however, that workfare is more cost-effective against poverty … that for the same budget, workfare has less impact on poverty than either a basic-income scheme (providing the same … transfer to all) or uniform transfers based on the government's below-poverty-line ration cards. For workfare to dominate other …

Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. This paper offers a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics in the Russian … from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey. The analysis suggests that the equivalence scale elasticity is sensitive to …

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