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 …

Up-to-date, nationally representative household income/expenditure data are crucial to estimating poverty during the … COVID-19 pandemic and to policy-making more broadly, but South Africa lacks such data. We present new pandemic poverty …-loss-induced poverty: a headcount ratio increase at the upper-bound poverty line of 5.2 percentage points (3.1 million people/13 per cent …

This case study traces the evolution of poverty in Mongolia, a country currently developing a pluralist approach to … poverty alleviation. Mongolia is unique because it transformed from nomadic pastoralism to Soviet socialism without a natural … liberalism and multiparty democracy. Collapse of the socialist safety net increased poverty for women and rural areas. Although …

The concept of poverty is discussed using qualitative and quantitative measures as an indicator for social deprivation …. Poverty can be absolute, relative, income-based, consumption-based, or entitlement-based. The variation in the concept of … poverty reveals its dimensionality. However, when closely examined, these dimensions are seen to be conceptually interrelated …

contract - to those of its neighbours in Southern Africa. It is the result of the specific character of poverty in Botswana and …

. 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 …

Programs to fight poverty aim at allowing individuals to support themselves ex-post, when they are not part of the …