In 2002 the Government of Quebec enacted Bill 112, known as An Act to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion. It has also … poverty and social exclusion. The Committee published a series of recommendations in 2009 that more or less amount to a …

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

This paper develops the link between poverty and inequality by focussing on a class of poverty indices (some of them … parameter that captures the ethical sensitivity of poverty measurement to "exclusion" or "relative-deprivation" aversion. We … also show how the indices can be readily used to predict the impact of growth on poverty. An illustration using LIS data …

This paper extends the previous literature on the normative links between the measurement of poverty, social welfare … and inequality. We show how, when the range of possible poverty lines is unbounded above, a robust ranking of absolute … poverty may be interpreted as a robust ranking of social welfare, and a robust ranking of relative poverty may be interpreted …

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

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

Variations in aggregate poverty indices can be due to differences in average poverty intensity, to changes in the … total change in poverty into a sum of indices of each of these three components. This decomposition can serve inter alia to … integrate horizontal and vertical equity criteria in the poverty alleviation assessment of social and economic programs. The use …