We propose simple graphical methods to identify poverty-reducing marginal reforms of transfer programs. The methods are … based on Program Dominance curves that display cumulative program benefits weighted by powers of poverty gaps. These curves … whether the assessment of marginal program reforms is sensitive to the choice of poverty lines and poverty measures as well as …

The evaluation of the impact on poverty of social programs depends on how other programs are treated in the analysis … and on the assumptions used for estimating poverty measures. This paper applies a simple yet sound method for allocating … between various programs the total poverty reduction obtained from several programs. Estimates of program impacts are also …

The evaluation of the poverty impact and targeting performance of a given social program may depend on how other … simple yet theoretically sound method for allocating between various programs the overall poverty reduction obtained from a …

The poverty impact of indirect tax reforms is analyzed using sequential stochastic dominance methods. This allows …

-poor by a wide spectrum of poverty analysts. The statistical properties of the various estimators are also derived in order to …

This paper shows how to take into account risk aversion when measuring poverty under income variability. An application … to British panel data suggests that income and poverty comparisons between the self-employed and other groups of … order to account for risk aversion and income variability in the measurement of poverty. …

uses recent advances in sequential stochastic dominance techniques to show how to test for the robustness of poverty and … suggest that migrants do better than non-migrants for poverty, but worse for housing quality, none of the two groups is found …

poverty in Canada. …