reducing poverty through social assistance payments are calculated using several measures of poverty for five selected EU … poverty alleviation, the results provide some evidence that extremely centralised systems are more effective with regard to …

positive average effects on employment, earnings, and income, and generally negative effects on poverty rates, although the …

investigated countries provide social assistance benefits above the EU near poverty threshold. Social assistance benefit levels …

would focus on financial poverty: people living in households with economic resources below the level used by Eurostat (60 …% of the median in the Member State), with this being accompanied by a measure of child poverty. Social investment in … not a complete substitute for social spending. The European countries which perform best in terms of reducing poverty tend …

developed. Subsequently, on the basis of LIS data the effectiveness and efficiency in reducing poverty through social assistance …

of recipients. I then discuss empirical work on the effects of the EITC on poverty and income distribution, and its …

Uncertainty and unpredictability faced by low-income households increase their vulnerability making poverty even more … as a way of combating poverty. This paper investigates whether or not SHG participation results in reducing poverty and …. Going beyond the traditional poverty estimates, we use a vulnerability measure which quantifies the welfare loss associated …

expenditure (PCE) and poverty status) in Ghana using the Ghana Socioeconomic Panel Survey Dataset. SEZs spillover effect on … understanding of the heterogeneous state of SEZs and poverty in Ghana. While data limitations prevented the study from drawing … (MTE) models were used to correct the potential selection bias and to estimate the effect of SEZs on household poverty …