There is a wide agreement among poverty research community that conventional estimates of poverty (i.e., money … overestimate total household expenditure, which results in an underestimation of poverty measured in terms of household expenditure … poverty and child poverty estimates in five middle-income countries (India, Mexico, South Africa, Russian Federation and Peru …

This paper assesses the effects on poverty and inequality of the alternative targeting approaches that Zambia's Social … government introduced support based on giving actual cash through social cash transfers aimed at reducing poverty and … of social cash transfers, nationwide extreme poverty would be 1.6 percentage points higher than otherwise. The results …

economic growth achievements do not reflect the poverty reduction initiatives in Tanzania. Despite rapid growth of the public … debt and poverty for Tanzania no studies have been undertaken to investigate the impact of the public debt on economic … growth and poverty in Tanzania. The present study is aiming to evaluate the impact of the public debt on economic growth and …