This paper considers the impact of Programa de Educacion, Salud y Alimentacion (PROGRESA), a large Mexican rural anti-poverty …

with nonrandom samples. This paper contributes to this debate through an examination of PROGRESA, a Mexican anti-poverty …

were targeted towards the poor, rather than necessarily food insecure households, but as poverty is highly correlated with … PSNP was applied. Households' identification of poverty-related factors as a reason why households are selected for Public …

This paper examines growth, poverty and chronic poverty in 15 Ethiopian villages between 1994 and 2004. Growth and … poverty reduction in these communities was substantial; headcount poverty fell from 48 to 35 percent. However, there is also … movement in and out of poverty over this period and a significant proportion of the sample was chronically poor. Chronic …