living in poverty. Households with a beneficiary increased their level of consumption by 44 percent. The program improved …

consistent assessments of social welfare, inequality and poverty embodied in a given income distribution. Methods: We propose …

Bourguignon and Fields ("Poverty Measures and Anti-Poverty Policy") and Gangopadhyay and Subramanian ("Optimal … Budgetary Intervention in Poverty Alleviation Schemes") have derived optimal budgetary rules for the redress of poverty through … direct income transfers when poverty is measured by the Foster, Greer and Thorbecke Pá class of indices in the context of a …