Poverty reduction has become a fundamental objective of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the … effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a … need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of growth. This paper follows the elasticity approach to propose a …

In 2013, Mexico's Social Pension Program for the Elderly was expanded by changing its eligibility threshold from age 70 … exogenous variation around eligibility age was exploited to uncover the causal effects of this expansion on extreme poverty and …-experimental methods, results show that the expansion of Mexico's Social Pension Program for the Elderly not only reduced the probability …

combined effect of taxes and social spending helped substantially to reduce poverty and inequality in Poland in 2014, in line … poverty, inequality, and the potential fiscal cost are presented. The simulations show that there are potential efficiency …This paper assesses the impact of fiscal policy on the incidence, depth, and severity of poverty, and examines whether …

transfers, indirect subsidies, and in-kind transfers) on the level of poverty and inequality in Uganda, using the …-kind transfers, are the biggest contributors to reducing inequality. Although equalizing, fiscal policy is poverty-inducing in Uganda … resources to increase the size and coverage of pro-poor direct transfers programs may alleviate poverty and reduce inequality …

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 …

Proxy means test (PMT) poverty targeting tools have become common tools for beneficiary targeting and poverty … USAID poverty assessment tool and base data are used for demonstration of these methods; however, the methods applied in … this paper should be considered for PMT and other poverty-targeting tool development more broadly …

The performance of the Simple Poverty Scorecard is compared against the performance of established regression …-based estimators. All estimates are benchmarked against observed poverty status based on household expenditure (or income) data from … Poverty Scorecard is as good as any of the regression-based estimators. The findings change, however, when the regression …

transfers. The findings show that the system is progressive and contributes to reductions in poverty and inequality. The Gini ….76 Gini points (around 16 percent). Something similar happens with the poverty rate, which decreases from 47.31 to 31 …

The adoption of the shared prosperity goal by the World Bank in 2013 and Sustainable Development Goal 10, on inequality …