comparison to four other methods (the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) wealth index, the Poverty Probability Index (PPI …), Community Based Targeting (CBT) and the Ghana Government's Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) program). We first … developed our new ML-based PMT by applying machine learning techniques to the nationally-representative 2016-2017 Ghana Living …

This paper analyses the effectiveness of tax-benefit systems in reducing poverty and inequality across 13 countries in … to poverty and inequality. Additionally, we assess gender disparities in outcomes, quantify the distributional effects of …

the effects of four UBI schemes on poverty and inequality measures during normal times and times of crisis in Uganda and … benefit leads to higher poverty and inequality compared to existing benefits. By contrast, in Uganda, a country with only one … notable social protection programme, all UBI scenarios reduce poverty and inequality. Differences between welfare estimates …

indicates that most of the poverty alleviation role of remittances is contributed by its direct effect on increasing the wealth … remittances on poverty alleviation using data for 65 low- and- middle-income countries from 2002 to 2016. By using two-stage least … product (GDP) significantly mitigate poverty. On average, a 10-percentage-point increase in remittances will lead to a similar …

conditions for everyone. The endurance of poverty, however, has motivated to extend the traditional 'growth is good for the poor … stage with the propagation of the Millennium Development Goals, including its goal to halve poverty by 2015. -- This volume …

Labor informality and poverty are at high levels in Latin America. In developing countries, poverty and the labor … labor informality and poverty in Colombia. To do so, earnings gaps associated with labor informality are estimated; then …, the effect of formalization on poverty is calculated, as the influence of changes in labor informality on Colombia …

The new Routledge History of Poverty, c. 1450-1800 provides neither a "history" nor a coherent concept of "poverty" and …, based on the idea that the interplay of "labour" and "poverty" (epitomized in the notion of the "labouring poor") forms the … crucial key to the understanding of the decisive long-term theme in the history of poverty and poor relief in Europe from 1350 …