This paper assesses the effects on poverty and inequality of the alternative targeting approaches that Zambia's Social … government introduced support based on giving actual cash through social cash transfers aimed at reducing poverty and … of social cash transfers, nationwide extreme poverty would be 1.6 percentage points higher than otherwise. The results …

poverty and wellbeing. This framing is reflective of Brazil's national narrative on race relations and the idea that class and … employment status have been the most salient barriers to social welfare protections. Brazil's widely well-regarded anti-poverty … systems offers important lessons on how poverty relief can further human development and enhance agency. Future reformers can …

Reducing poverty remains an important challenge, and the COVID-19-crisis may further reinforce social vulnerabilities …. Although it has declined lately, relative poverty remains high in international comparison and is distributed unevenly across … particularly affected. A comprehensive approach is required to ensure an effective transition out of poverty and social exclusion …

Social protection programmes have emerged as one of the most important anti-poverty policy strategies in developing … countries. Their effects on poverty and well-being have been widely studied. Yet, there is limited knowledge on how a transfer … programme should respond to the dynamics of poverty. This paper contributes to the existing literature on social protection by …

Up-to-date, nationally representative household income/expenditure data are crucial to estimating poverty during the … COVID-19 pandemic and to policy-making more broadly, but South Africa lacks such data. We present new pandemic poverty …-loss-induced poverty: a headcount ratio increase at the upper-bound poverty line of 5.2 percentage points (3.1 million people/13 per cent …

poverty, multidimensional poverty index (MPI) and child deprivation index (CDI). The results indicate that BISP cash … households are until facing high rates of poverty as the majority of them have not been transited out of poverty. No sustained …

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 …

the transparency of social pension allocation were indeed achieved, such that possession of the Below Poverty Line ration …