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 …

Using recently completed quot;poverty mapsquot; for Cambodia, Ecuador, and Madagascar, the authors simulate the impact … on poverty of transferring an exogenously given budget to geographically defined subgroups of the population according to … their relative poverty status. They find large gains from targeting smaller administrative units, such as districts or …

opposed to absolute poverty. If one accepts that taxation is to fund public services, the question arises, at least in … issue of which is more pressing, relative as opposed to absolute poverty?The contention in this paper is that there is a far …

contribution in overall poverty for the periods 2011 and 2014 using MICS data and the Alkire-Foster method for four districts … overall poverty level in Lahore Division in 2014 compared to 2011. The living standards of the people residing in rural areas … are relatively low as compare to urban areas. Different standings of the poverty level are found in all districts, while …

The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries - the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK …, and Ireland. Do all these countries really stand out from other OECD countries for their levels of child poverty, as is … sometimes assumed? And what policies have they adopted to address the problem? "Poverty" is interpreted broadly and hence the …

Child poverty is firmly on the policy agenda in many OECD countries. One of the main issues in the debate is the …

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 …

Most welfare states design their tax/benefit system to combat income poverty. Some countries are more effective in … poverty alleviation than others. What can explain these variations in outcomes and effectiveness? And has the redistributive … transfers and income taxes in alleviating poverty. We focus on 49 LIS-countries for the period 1967-2016. We compare relative …

This study aims to analyze the contribution of the minimum wage valorization policy to the reduction in poverty that … occurred in the first decade of the 21st century in Brazil, considering not only the incidence of poverty but also its … contributed to a 38.2% reduction in the proportion of impoverished people, a 39.4% reduction in the intensity of poverty and 40 …