The transitional economies of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) have enjoyed an extraordinary period of growth and poverty … reduction between 2000 and 2007 and this occurred in concomitance with significant increases in private and public transfers to … households. The paper assesses the relative importance of these transfers for welfare and poverty in Moldova, the poorest country …

The transitional economies of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) have enjoyed an extraordinary period of growth and poverty … reduction between 2000 and 2007 and this occurred in concomitance with significant increases in private and public transfers to … households. The paper assesses the relative importance of these transfers for welfare and poverty in Moldova, the poorest country …

the long-run, growth reduces poverty. Yet, growth in output - per se - is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition … for poverty reduction in the short-term. The paper uses a number of parametric and non-parametric methodologies to assess … the relation between growth and poverty in Kazakhstan, a country that experienced rapid growth and poverty reduction in …

The transitional economies of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) have enjoyed an extraordinary period of growth and poverty … reduction between 2000 and 2007 and this occurred in concomitance with significant increases in private and public transfers to … households. The paper assesses the relative importance of these transfers for welfare and poverty in Moldova, the poorest country …

poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the … standard poverty indexes. It is argued that negative and zero incomes cannot be treated equally in terms of household well …-being and that standard methods used by practitioners fail to recognize this fact likely resulting in overestimations of poverty. …

Poverty prediction models are used by economists to address missing data issues in a variety of contexts such as … poverty profiling, targeting with proxy-means tests, cross-survey imputations such as poverty mapping, or vulnerability … models to predict poverty under these different scenarios. It finds that the quality of predictions and the choice of the …