stochastic dominance framework. The key advantage is that the assessment as to whether pricing or price cap reforms are poverty …

This article discusses the impact of structural adjustment on poverty and inequality and overall social welfare in … Pakistan over the adjustment decade (1988–99) based on household surveys. It provides an indepth analysis of poverty during … incidence of poverty has increased and the real wages of both skilled and unskilled labour fell sharply. Overall, the likely …

inequality and at-risk-of-poverty using EUROMOD and discuss the main reasons for the differences between these and their …

poverty has worsened, although AIDS, drought, and economic mismanagement have all compromised poverty reduction. In any case …, child poverty has come under increased scrutiny, in part because of the Millennium Development Goals and the growing …

The new Routledge History of Poverty, c. 1450-1800 provides neither a "history" nor a coherent concept of "poverty" and …, based on the idea that the interplay of "labour" and "poverty" (epitomized in the notion of the "labouring poor") forms the … crucial key to the understanding of the decisive long-term theme in the history of poverty and poor relief in Europe from 1350 …

. 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 …

This paper offers an evaluation of a supported women's self help program with over 1.5 million participants in one of … capabilities across a range of dimensions are then developed for some 6000 women and used to estimate a number of propensity score …-strand programs can help to explain the paradox as to why nearly 100 million women (in India alone) have participated in self help …

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 …