This paper compares for 13 Latin American countries the poverty and inequality impacts of cash transfer programs that … to the poor within each population group (that is, poverty targeted transfers). The analysis finds that both the … incidence of poverty and the depth of the poverty gap are important factors affecting the relative effectiveness of categorical …

particular transfer on poverty. The countries included in this study are Canada, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the …Substantial cross-national differences in poverty alleviation are well documented, but theextent to which different …-targeted provisions and means-tested benefits reduce relative economic poverty in different institutional settings. It is shown that the …

Steuergutschrift für Erwerbstätige mit niedrigem Einkommen. Eine solche Steuergutschrift belohnt Arbeit und verhindert Armut. Sie wird …

extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity …

extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity …

like for Africa? The goal of ending extreme poverty remains paramount. Globally, the World Bank has set goals to end … extreme poverty by 2030 and to promote shared prosperity in every society. We examine feasibility of these objectives for Sub … redistribution, eliminating poverty by 2030 is out of the region's reach. Even under our "best case" scenario of accelerated growth …

national development agenda and poverty reduction strategies. It covers issues related to agriculture, forest and urban lands … poverty. Land reform is the critical policy intervention in the agrarian and urban sector. The implementation of the program …

are primarily responsible for whether older women find themselves in poverty or not. Older men and women in countries with … relatively generous (or well targeted) social retirement and social transfer benefits have lower levels of poverty. A caveat of … likely to be in poverty than renters. As the value of homes and homeownership increase, housing will become an especially …

poverty for working-age households in Sweden, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States from the mid-1970s to …-country empirical studies have found that welfare state generosity is strongly associated with low relative poverty, but there has been … virtually no cross-national analysis of welfare state effects on absolute poverty, which is at the heart of the critics …

decades in a comparative perspective. The countries included in the study are Canada, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom and … the Untied States. Since a main objective of means-tested benefits is to mitigate and alleviate poverty, the comparisons … provided at levels sufficient to allow recipients to escape poverty. The long time frame of the study also gives an opportunity …