The "Minimum Vital Income" (IMV) constitutes a novelty in the panorama for fighting poverty by guaranteeing minimum … incomes after the COVID-19 crisis. This work simulates the distributional and poverty effects of the IMV introduction across … Spanish regions using EUROMOD. Our results show that the IMV reduces inequality and poverty - general and extreme - for all …

analyses of low-income populations. We focus on the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and … understates the effects of anti-poverty programs and changes our understanding of program targeting, often making it seem that … data rather than survey data alone, the poverty reducing effect of all programs together is nearly doubled while the effect …

- better cushions the poverty effects of income shocks in a developing economy. We compare the effectiveness of the three … benefit schemes on poverty first conceptually and then by considering two different crisis scenarios, the COVID-19 pandemic … the proxy-means-tested benefits are the most effective in reducing the poverty gap index, a simple categorical benefit is …

The at-risk-of-poverty rate, the relative income poverty indicator applied in the EU, can be highly sensitive to the …-established approaches to estimate the equivalence scale: an 'objective' one, based on consumption expenditures available in the national … weight, which is very close to the OECD-modified weight. Applying the estimated scales affects the income poverty rate and …

analyses of low-income populations. We focus on the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and … understates the effects of anti-poverty programs and changes our understanding of program targeting, often making it seem that … data rather than survey data alone, the poverty reducing effect of all programs together is nearly doubled while the effect …

employment, accompanied by a decrease of absolute income poverty as measured by the at-risk-of-poverty rate anchored at a fixed … income poverty, it is concluded that measures of material deprivation behave like absolute income poverty indicators if the …

assessment of poverty alleviation programs, with the strength of each criterion being captured through its own inequity …-aversion parameter. This contrasts with the assessment of poverty alleviation programs done with simple under-coverage and leakage ratios … poverty alleviation policies. We find inter alia that the social ranking of commodity and socio-demographic targeting in …

This paper describes the effects of general food subsidies on poverty in Tunisia, as revealed by household survey data … that targeting by commodities is not an effective way to fight against poverty and so, it is unlikely that restructuring … investigate the impact on poverty of a more targeted transfer scheme, based on proxy means-tests, using an appropriate econometric …

In response to the low fertility rate and high child poverty in Poland, the government implemented the Family 500 … beneficiaries relative to non-eligible families. The findings suggest that after the introduction of the program, expenditures on … alleviate child poverty concerns and financial constraints to having children. …

county's overall poverty population as well as CalWORKs parents. Because of the very large sample of respondents the survey …