Bourguignon and Fields ("Poverty Measures and Anti-Poverty Policy") and Gangopadhyay and Subramanian ("Optimal … Budgetary Intervention in Poverty Alleviation Schemes") have derived optimal budgetary rules for the redress of poverty through … direct income transfers when poverty is measured by the Foster, Greer and Thorbecke Pá class of indices in the context of a …

aim to reflect local perceptions of poverty. This paper demonstrates how such a measure can be constructed, using data … from a field experiment on poverty targeting in Indonesia. It then explores the potential impact of using this welfare … used as a meaningful basis for targeting and poverty measurement. …

This paper aims at measuring and analyzing the non-monetary aspect of multidimensional poverty by the basic needs … Multidimensional Correspondence Analysis (MCA) techniques to construct a Composite Poverty Indicator (CPI). Moreover, we use the most … recent data from the country survey QUIBB 2006. The results of the incidence of multidimensional poverty by two approaches …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper examines how the challenge of poverty can be effectively addressed by broadly … curse of poverty for themselves and for their future generations.Design/methodology/approach – The elimination of poverty by … for the elimination of poverty reveals that the poverty gap can be eliminated through resource mobilization, as well as by …

growing economy to fall into a social poverty trap. We argue that this risk is particularly relevant for advanced societies ….-- social capital ; self-protection choices ; social poverty traps …

The puzzle of why the cycle of poverty persists and upward socioeconomic mobility is so difficult has long captivated … scholars and the public alike. Yet with all of the attention that has been paid to poverty, the crucial role of the law …, particularly state and local law, in perpetuating poverty is largely ignored. This Article offers a new theory of poverty, one that …

citizens. Each living group in a nation is identified as a Household. Poverty is the inability to buy the Basic Needs by a … and eradicate the Poor category. This is a direct bottom level approach to eradicate poverty. Induction of savings through …

aim to reflect local perceptions of poverty. This paper demonstrates how such a measure can be constructed, using data … from a field experiment on poverty targeting in Indonesia. It then explores the potential impact of using this welfare … used as a meaningful basis for targeting and poverty measurement …

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 …