A decline in poverty generally masks regional disparities that are due to varying efficiency among states. Using a … reduce poverty and its determinants in Bolivia. Our findings reveal that states differ in terms of efficiency, with some … recalibration. We find that when the macroeconomic conditions in Bolivia allow for a 10 percent reduction in the poverty rate …

persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … poor individuals stayed in poverty for two years on average. In East Germany, the contribution of the permanent component … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty …

-distribution method. Poverty and inequality decline overall, since households with children and low income gain, while those who used to …

developed. Subsequently, on the basis of LIS data the effectiveness and efficiency in reducing poverty through social assistance …

We review the empirical evidence on the impact of microcredit on poverty in Bangladesh. Drawing on evidence from seven … empirical studies with 306 estimates, we examine the impact of microcredit on three proxies of poverty – income, assets and …

This study examines the enduring spatial and racial dimensions of poverty and deprivation in South Africa to assess the … services. While there has been previous studies tracking poverty trends over segments of the post-apartheid period, no previous … the Total Fuzzy and Relative approach proposed by Cheli and Lemmi (1995) to derive a poverty index with nine dimensions of …

effect of the DC supplemental earned income tax credit (EITC) and the federal EITC on poverty and income dynamics within … to estimate the likelihood of net-EITC income above poverty and near-poverty thresholds. We also estimate the likelihood … EITC raises the likelihood of net-EITC income above poverty and near poverty by as much as 9 percent, with the largest …

The poverty reduction potential of national social assistance programs in eight Central and Eastern European countries … higher effectiveness in reducing poverty. Unlike Western Europe, no trade-off between extensiveness and benefit generosity or …

reducing poverty through social assistance payments are calculated using several measures of poverty for five selected EU … poverty alleviation, the results provide some evidence that extremely centralised systems are more effective with regard to …

substantially different levels of vulnerability to poverty among population groups facing different risks. In the context of the …