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 …

model, to measure the effects of the RdC in terms of inequality reduction and, as a novel contribution, of absolute poverty … reducing inequality, and attenuating the incidence, and even more so the intensity, of absolute poverty. We also document how …

Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …

Sustainable Development Goals, particularly poverty in Ghana. Specifically, the study examined the effect of COVID-19 on poverty … regressions. Results showed that COVID-19 had significantly increased the poverty levels of households while deteriorating living …

Poverty is a problem of extreme seriousness in any society that limits and hinders the path to social progress. Much … has been said about poverty, but the essential and inescapable point is that the real solution to the problem is to remove … argued that "clearer and more transparent definitions of poverty are essential prerequisites of any development policy that …

This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach …/04 for state analysis. The results are quite robust and lend support to the general view that poverty in Nigeria has not kept …-income poverty. There was a marginal change of -0.21 in the percentage of the population experiencing acute deprivation between 1999 …

Nigeria has recorded impressive growth in the last decade, yet the impact of this growth on poverty reduction remains … unclear. This paper appraises spatial and temporal non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the first … is sensitive to indicator definitions, the overall results are robust and lend support to the view that poverty reduction …

We review the recent empirical literature on global poverty, focusing on key methodological aspects. These include the … choice of welfare indicator, poverty line and purchasing power parity exchange rates, equivalence scales, data sources, and …-household inequalities and potentially influencing poverty estimates. Based on a sensitivity analysis of global poverty estimates to …