uses recent advances in sequential stochastic dominance techniques to show how to test for the robustness of poverty and … suggest that migrants do better than non-migrants for poverty, but worse for housing quality, none of the two groups is found …

The article attempts an assessment of the long-term evolution of poverty in the four Latin American countries for which … situations present in the region. Intertemporal comparability was preferred in order to depict the long-term trends of poverty … and alternative estimates of poverty, corresponding to different degrees of deprivation, were used in order to assess the …

The non take-up of social assistance benefits due to claim costs may seriously limit the anti-poverty effect of these …

This paper shows that when - in the manner of the recent targeting literature - the resources available for poverty … relief are allocated across heterogeneous groups so as to minimize a 'well-behaved' index of aggregate poverty, the optimal … conditions for optimally-targeted benefits to be inversely related to needs are established under two polar forms of poverty …

-led. Survival-led diversification would decrease inequality by increasing the incomes of poorer households and thus reduce poverty …. By contrast, opportunity-led diversification would increase inequality and have a minor effect on poverty, as it tends to … diversification strategies. Yet, the poverty and inequality implications differ somewhat from our expectations. Our findings indicate …

This study tests for structural change in the poverty-farm employment relationship between 1980 and 1990. Econometric … impoverished U.S. households in 1980. However, in 1990, the farm employment-poverty relationship reversed: an additional farm job … was associated with an increase in poverty. Our findings suggest immigration to fill low-skilled farm jobs is transferring …

I suggest in this essay that Barbara Bergmann's approach to the economics of women is characterized by six striking … commitment to applied economics - economic analysis that supports policy change that will improve women's and children's lives …