. The paper underscores the principles of the poverty focus of social assistance and presents an overview of existence … evidence of first- and second-order effects of social assistance, particularly in the domains of poverty, education, health and …

This paper uses the empirical relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction observed between 1990 and 2005 … incidence of poverty. Since most countries that we work with in this paper experience an increase in gross domestic product per … capita even under our "low growth" scenario, poverty in developing Asia continues to decline in 2009 and 2010. What gets …

.e. percentage point) changes in FGT poverty measures assuming a log-normal income distribution, which we argue to be a conceptually … superior and more policy-relevant measure than the much used "regular" growth elasticity of poverty reduction. We also test the … empirical relationship of these semi-elasticities of growth and distributional change on poverty and find them to explain actual …