visits by trained social workers to households in extreme poverty with preferential access to social programs. We use a … that this major national program is likely to fail in making a significant contribution to reducing extreme poverty. We …

We study the effectiveness of social protection benefits in reducing income and consumption poverty in five sub … benefits and their poverty-reducing effects in each country. Second, we study the ability of benefit automatic stabilizers to …. Although the coverage of benefits is fairly high in Ghana and Zambia, the poverty-reducing impact of benefits in all five …

A large share of the population in Zambia is living below the national poverty line. To reduce poverty, in 2019, the … additional benefits to take account of the multidimensionality of poverty. We use the tax-benefit microsimulation model … MicroZAMOD to analyse the coverage and poverty impact of the current social protection system and to assess the extent to which …

Poverty maps are a useful tool for the targeting of social programs on areas with high concentrations of poverty …. However, a static focus on poverty ignores the temporal dimension of poverty. Thus, current nonpoor households still face … substantial welfare volatility and are at risk of becoming poor in the face of shocks. We combine the methods of poverty mapping …

Although not characterized as a program designed to address the problems of poverty, Social Security, the linchpin of … America's social welfare enterprise, impacts poverty more significantly than most of the usually identified anti-poverty … reach more deeply into the jungle of poverty. Recognizing the limitations of existing social welfare anti-poverty programs …