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

This paper documents the impact of Argentina's recent economic crises on different aspects of poverty, with a special … focus on the economic collapse of 2002. We discuss the methodology of poverty measurement in Argentina and we use a simple … rule to compensate for the lack of regional poverty figures until 2001, providing consistent series of urban poverty …

-adjusted income and poverty measures and to analyze their determinants. Taking risk into account increases poverty. The regression …

This chapter offers a primer on poverty, inequality, and vulnerability analysis and a guide to resources on this topic …. It is written for decision makers who want to define the type of information they need to monitor poverty reduction and …

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 …

This paper documents the impact of Argentina’s recent economic crises on different aspects of poverty, with a special … focus on the economic collapse of 2002. We discuss the methodology of poverty measurement in Argentina and we use a simple … rule to compensate for the lack of regional poverty figures until 2001, providing consistent series of urban poverty …

This chapter offers a primer on poverty, inequality, and vulnerability analysis and a guide to resources on this topic …. It is written for decision makers who want to define the type of information they need to monitor poverty reduction and … translated from an English version published in the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook. …

end of 2002, poverty is likely to be high and to have risen in recent years even compared to its high postconflict level …. The first objective of this chapter is to estimate the share of the population in poverty in 2002, predict how it may have … evolved since then, and assess the levels of growth that will be required to reduce poverty measures in the future. The …