, would have a huge impact. We find that contrary to what is often assumed, guaranteed income schemes may increase poverty …

. -- Guaranteed Minimum Income ; ex ante evaluation ; labor market effects ; financial cost ; poverty alleviation ; public finance …

specifically on the poverty impacts of growth. Considering a cross-sectional perspective for poverty measurement, early …’s treatment of mobility encompasses both the gain of "mobility as equalizer" and the variability cost of poverty transiency …

. It is also a procedure for testing whether poverty comparisons can be made over classes of indices that incorporate both … absolute and relative views of poverty. Besides being robust to whether pro-poor judgements should be absolute or relative, the … ranges of absolute and relative poverty lines. The test is applied to distributional changes in five middle- and four lower …

. It is also a procedure for testing whether poverty comparisons can be made over classes of indices that incorporate both … absolute and relative views of poverty. Besides being robust to whether pro-poor judgements should be absolute or relative, the … ranges of absolute and relative poverty lines. The test is applied to distributional changes in five middle- and four lower …

The paper contributes to the measurement of poverty and vulnerability in three ways. First, we propose a new approach … to separating poverty into chronic and transient components. Second, we provide corrections for the statistical biases … introduced when using a small number of periods to estimate the importance of vulnerability and transient poverty. Third, we …

a wide spectrum of poverty analysts. The statistical properties of the various estimators are also derived in order to … also shows how the pro-poorness of a tax reform depends on one’s conception of poverty as well as on the revenue and …