(english) This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. Our method is based on … anti-poverty targeting performances. Post-transfer poverty can be substantially reduced with the new estimation method. In … terms of P2, the most popular axiomatically valid poverty indicator, moving from 1.30, the level reached under subsidies, to …

This paper analyzes the relationship between growth, poverty and income distribution using household data for Colombia … for the years 1996 to 2004. We study the relationship between growth, inequality and poverty by following the Poverty … degree to which the poor benefit from the growth process. We also carry out a decomposition of the changes in poverty to …

assessment of poverty alleviation programs, with the strength of each criterion being captured through its own inequity …-aversion parameter. This contrasts with the assessment of poverty alleviation programs done with simple under-coverage and leakage ratios … poverty alleviation policies. We find inter alia that the social ranking of commodity and socio-demographic targeting in …

in achieving this goal. As these are macro relationships, richer insights into determinants of poverty are obtained by …

This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. Our method is based on estimation … methods that focus on the poor. Using data from Tunisia, we estimate ‘focused’ transfer schemes that highly improve anti-poverty … targeting performances. Post-transfer poverty can be substantially reduced with the new estimation method. In terms of P2, the …

Poverty alleviation is an important policy objective in developed welfare states. This paper analyzes the effect of … social transfer policies on poverty. A vast literature claims that high social effort goes along with low poverty levels … find quite a strong negative relationship between the level of public social expenditure and poverty among 28 OECD …

Investment in human capital is an important tool for reducing poverty. However, the poor may lack the capacity to …

significantly the prospects of achieving MDG 1 of halving poverty in Asia and the Pacific Region. As more than a few countries in … poverty threshold of US$1.25 per day (at 2005 PPP) for assessing progress towards MDG1 is not so compelling now. Accordingly …, the present assessment uses two poverty thresholds: US$2 per day and US$1.25 per day (both at 2005 PPP). Our analysis …