As the Chilean government seeks to reduce both poverty and inequality through cash transfers to poor households, local … evidence that cash transfers had highly variable impacts on poverty and inequality at the county level in 2002. In particular … considerable reductions in poverty and inequality. In addition, the strength of the governing mandate weakly influences the …

fluctuations, raising the incidence of poverty. Drawing on micro-level data from South Africa and Tanzania, we examine the … that reducing consumption volatility would have on aggregate poverty. We then discuss coverage of consumption insurance …

analysis of poverty. In this chapter, we examine the poverty incidence among older people across LIS countries, relying on data … from the Luxembourg Income Study. The data show that poverty rates are substantially reduced by redistribution via tax …/benefit systems (mainly via pension benefits). Furthermore, the data show that old-age poverty rates and the antipoverty effect of …

Rural poverty, a widespread problem for the Paraguayan government over the last decade – as well as for other economies … program, an initiative based on the graduation approach to reduce the incidence of extreme poverty in rural areas. Evaluating … the intervention results is essential to understand the effectiveness of this approach in reducing poverty in the …

, poverty rates have stagnated and in some countries even increased. In the welfare state literature, it has been argued that … these disappointing poverty trends may be partly attributable to the reforming of traditional welfare state programmes into … for a linkage between stagnating or increasing poverty trends and shifts in expenditures to new welfare state programmes …

poverty.The basic premise of the work-first model that continuing participation in the labor force will lead to economic self … at least three quarters a year over a multi-year period, which are the prerequisites for rising above the poverty … these workers to the poverty threshold would increase economic output by another three-quarters of a billion dollars a year …

Poverty adversely affects the lives of Los Angeles residents as well as the City as a whole. Among other things …, poverty has a direct financial impact on local government because of above-average per capita costs for municipal services … neighborhoods marked by concentrated poverty and the number of people living in such acutely poor neighborhoods has declined. Los …

We assess the impact of redistributive policy on child poverty across 29 European welfare states, using EU SILC 2005 … children. Pensions are generally neglected in analyses on child poverty, but are relevant through the presence of two …

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Poverty alleviation is an important objective of European countries and of the United States. If these ‘rich' states … offer elaborate systems of income maintenance, why is there still a considerable amount of poverty? And why are anti-poverty …-country research papers on anti-poverty policy. Two former papers analyzed the effects of social transfers on both poverty levels and …