. 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 …

The World Bank’s global poverty estimates suffer from deep-seated problems arising from a single source, the lack of a … poverty line of $1.90 (2011 PPP) does not in any way resolve these problems. We present alternate estimates of global …, regional and national poverty based on reasoning as to what the Bank’s own method, consistently applied, would entail. These …

and the distribution of those gains and provides a quantification of the inequality-adjusted welfare gains from trade. The … the welfare effects of trade policy. Chapter 3 uses the tariff data and the survey data to estimate those welfare effects in … interested in the inequality and poverty consequences of trade policy. …

, the welfare increases of the household, as measured by changes in consumption, are larger than when services are provided … confirm. Thus, we find that bundling of services may help realize welfare effects. …

fully dynamic model class overlapping generations of Fehr (1999) enabling a decomposition of welfare effects into efficiency …