captures how well targeted a programme is within a group. On the other hand, if our objective is to maximize poverty reduction … index. Using micro unit-record data on household surveys from Thailand, Russia, Vietnam, and 15 African countries, the paper …

Poverty affects a large proportion of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa and, far from decreasing, the proportion and … numbers of poor people in Sub-Saharan Africa have actually increased over the last ten years. Policies to reduce poverty in … dimensions of poverty. Therefore we investigate here both the impact of a cash transfer on current poverty and the impact of …

We argue that inter-country comparisons of income poverty based on poverty lines uniformly reflecting the costs of the … uniform approach to poverty assessment based on basic human capabilities for three countries: Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Vietnam …. We compute standard errors of the resulting poverty estimates and compare the incidence of poverty across these three …

This Working Paper seeks to provide an overview of the link between employment and poverty in Kenya. Using descriptive … all these with poverty. Data are from the unit records of the Labour Force Survey of 1999/99, the latest available data at … programmes improve the incomes of the poor and result in significant reductions in the depth of poverty. Simulations indicate …

1995 and 2004 as well as its impact on poverty. We use the 2004 Brazilian National Household Survey (PNAD) that for the … living below the poverty line (half of minimum wage per capita), and that they were jointly responsible for 28% of the fall … since BPC and Bolsa Família together account for a tiny 0.82% of the total family income reported in the National Household …

distribution and the poverty line for a given population. The idea that poverty is morally unacceptable and can be eradicated … the aggregated income required to eradicate poverty by the way of transfers from the rich to the poor. I estimate an … affluence line using Brazilian 1999 National Household Survey data and briefly discuss the results. …