A decline in poverty generally masks regional disparities that are due to varying efficiency among states. Using a … reduce poverty and its determinants in Bolivia. Our findings reveal that states differ in terms of efficiency, with some … recalibration. We find that when the macroeconomic conditions in Bolivia allow for a 10 percent reduction in the poverty rate …

Policy makers are generally interested in both the anti-poverty impact and the efficiency of reforms. To connect these … two dimensions, I measure the poverty gap change per unit of net revenue that tax-benefit reforms produce. To isolate the … impact of reforms and account for labour supply responses, I apply a microsimulation decomposition framework to poverty gap …

revenue, which is spent for public goods (including education) and transfers (for poverty reduction). The efficient design of … poverty in an appropriate time period by transfers and vocational education measures for the grown-up as well as high quality … competition. -- Poverty ; human capital ; life-cycle analysis ; lifetime income ; education ; taxation ; transfers …

We evaluate the impact of the rise in food prices during 2006-2008 on the poverty and extreme poverty rates in Mexico … prices of food products. We find a modest increase in poverty using 2006-2007 prices, however, there is a daunting effect on … in 2008, such as reduced taxes and tariffs on food products and greater subsidies to the extremely poor, the poverty rate …

poverty as a whole. The paper shows that the widely used Shorrocks-Index for decomposing permanent and transitory inequality … can also be acquired to describe poverty. This method overcomes certain difficulties involved in the methods of Rodgers … & Rodgers (1993). The characteristics of the proposed Poverty-Stability-Index allow for an intuitive differentiation between the …

Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the … household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this … poverty status of households, while the impact of these assumptions on inequality between individual cannot be determined a …

poverty indices using SOEP data from 1991-2012. We distinguish between parental and publicly provided childcare, which is an … increasingly important in-kind benefit in Germany. We find that both multidimensional inequality and poverty declined as expanded …

found. Finally, I argue that poverty estimation based on national account consumption means and estimates of inequality from … decline of poverty over time, but the magnitude of the adjustment is country- and year-specific. …

multidimensional poverty in Zambia in 1996, 2006, and 2010. In addition to evaluating welfare across time and space, we extend the … detailed perspective on the evolution of rural poverty. Finally, we consider the sensitivity of FOD results to indicator …

We adapt the standardized Poverty Line Estimation Analytical Software (PLEASe) computer code stream based on Arndt and … Simler's (2010) utility-consistent approach to analyse poverty in Ethiopia in 2000, 2005, and 2011. Several data …-related issues create challenges to estimating the spatial and temporal distribution of poverty in a manner that meets both …