. The paper underscores the principles of the poverty focus of social assistance and presents an overview of existence … evidence of first- and second-order effects of social assistance, particularly in the domains of poverty, education, health and … labour markets. Moreover, the paper highlights the knowledge gaps with regard to the longer-term and gender-specific welfare …

Global GDP is more than 100 trillion dollars, yet 10% of the world's population still live in extreme poverty on less … than $1.90 per day. No one should have to live like that: alleviating poverty is a minimal moral obligation implied by … world to each poor person would eliminate extreme poverty directly and at negligible cost. It is the least we should do …

and poverty. Net direct and indirect taxes combined reduce the Gini coefficient by 0.0644 points and the headcount ratio … the elimination of energy subsidies. The main reduction in poverty occurs in rural areas, where the headcount ratio … declines from 44 to 23 percent. In urban areas, fiscally-induced poverty reduction is more modest: the headcount ratio declines …

substantial welfare volatility and are at risk of becoming poor in the face of shocks. We combine the methods of poverty mapping …Poverty maps are a useful tool for the targeting of social programs on areas with high concentrations of poverty …. However, a static focus on poverty ignores the temporal dimension of poverty. Thus, current nonpoor households still face …