substantially different levels of vulnerability to poverty among population groups facing different risks. In the context of the …

of American poverty outcomes and a more fruitful integration of the U.S. into comparative research. The augmentations … address three shortcomings in recent poverty research, including (1) severe measurement error in the data from which U ….S. poverty estimates are most often derived, (2) the conceptualizations of poverty adopted within U.S.-centric research, and (3 …

The objective of this study was to examine the role of social security in fighting poverty in Metlaoui, Tunisia, using …

children in the income distributions, and to calculate child poverty prevalence, to assess how far children receive transfers … concentrated in the lower quintiles and have higher child poverty prevalence than for adults, but receive lower social protection … both universal and targeted, anti-poverty, outcomes. Different versions of simple static and purely arithmetic micro …

- better cushions the poverty effects of income shocks in a developing economy. We compare the effectiveness of the three … benefit schemes on poverty first conceptually and then by considering two different crisis scenarios, the COVID-19 pandemic … the proxy-means-tested benefits are the most effective in reducing the poverty gap index, a simple categorical benefit is …

This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its …

the "poor/non-poor" classification in the first stage. -- Multidimensional welfare ; poverty ; factory analysis ; clusters …

This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its … Brazilian National Household Survey covering the period 1995-2004. -- inequality ; poverty ; growth ; pro-poor growth ; labour …

The poverty reduction potential of national social assistance programs in eight Central and Eastern European countries … higher effectiveness in reducing poverty. Unlike Western Europe, no trade-off between extensiveness and benefit generosity or …