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 …

. -- Guaranteed Minimum Income ; ex ante evaluation ; labor market effects ; financial cost ; poverty alleviation ; public finance …

a wide spectrum of poverty analysts. The statistical properties of the various estimators are also derived in order to … also shows how the pro-poorness of a tax reform depends on one's conception of poverty as well as on the revenue and …

a wide spectrum of poverty analysts. The statistical properties of the various estimators are also derived in order to … also shows how the pro-poorness of a tax reform depends on one’s conception of poverty as well as on the revenue and …

The importance of taking into account multiple dimensions of well-being in the measurement of poverty has been … emphasized in the recent literature. The poverty alleviation literature has not, however, yet addressed the important issue of … policy design for efficient multidimensional poverty reduction. From a normative perspective, it can be argued that, in …

Poverty-reducing policies ought to prioritize the "deserving" poor, that is, those who do all that can be reasonably … a theory of justice accommodating norms of individual responsibility. I propose and axiomatically characterize a family … of poverty indices that address these issues. Formally, poverty is measured by the sum of specific indices of individual …

Poverty-reducing policies ought to prioritize the "deserving" poor, that is, those who do all that can be reasonably … a theory of justice accommodating norms of individual responsibility. I propose and axiomatically characterize a family … of poverty indices that address these issues. Formally, poverty is measured by the sum of specific indices of individual …