price surge and various policy options on the performance of the main macroeconomic indicators as well as on poverty …

The European Union coordinates and encourages Member State actions to combat poverty, and to reform their social … in poverty reduction than others. What can explain these variations in effectiveness? This paper analyzes the … effectiveness of social transfers in alleviating poverty. We focus on EU15 countries, but also include other OECD countries in our …

Welfare-to-work measures are a central theme of Israel’s labour and social policies to tackle relative poverty, which … comparison with OECD countries, but it is not strongly enforced. Poverty among pensioners is set to fall in the future with the …

in rural areas, but it has not reduced poverty that much, not least because of how it is administered. Moreover, the …

The paper develops a new approach to measuring the impact of government cash transfers on poverty alleviation that … of changes in government cash benefits on poverty rates in Russia during 1994 to 1998. The methodological contribution is … changes in the expenditure distribution excluding cash transfers on movements in poverty rates. At least 30% of the rise in …

The Albanian Ndihma Ekonomike is one of the first poverty reduction programs launched in transitional economies. Its …

policies, but at the same time poverty and inequality have remained high or have increased. Prospects are not encouraging for …

developed. Subsequently, on the basis of LIS data the effectiveness and efficiency in reducing poverty through social assistance …

This paper focuses on vulnerability of rural households to poverty when a negative crop shock occurs. Of particular … concern is the possibilty of some sections experiencing long spells of poverty as a consequence of such shocks. The analysis … of anti-poverty strategy is necessary to avoid welfare losses from negative crop shocks that are frequent and …