benefit from economic growth. The linkage between growth, redistribution and poverty is also analysed. In the review of …

quality (in the form of health outcomes) and the number of children in the family at a time when genuine poverty still existed …

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 …

counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the …

This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing … corrected impact is shown to be three to five times larger for income and two to three times larger for poverty than is obtained … from standard analysis. Second, existing studies examine migration’s impact on the poverty of the entire sample. However …

This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. Our method is based on observable … improve anti-poverty targeting performances. Post-transfer poverty can be substantially reduced with the new estimation method …