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. …

In this article, we analyze whether the financial strain of poverty systematically alters the allocation of attention …

(2012) find a positive effect of the reform on lone mothers ́labour supply and a small reduction in poverty. Is the best … result that policy makers could obtain in terms of poverty reduction? In this paper, I estimate a discrete choice model of … have minimized poverty among lone mothers. …

This paper aims to bring out the determinants of significant poverty alleviation observed in Cameroon between 1993 and … 2001. It focuses on the decomposition of poverty and growth changes, in order to assess the intrinsic contribution of each … infrastructures, and the VAT enforcement respectively accounted for two percent, nine percent and -4 percent of poverty alleviation …