This paper presents a discussion on some poverty alleviation programs that are specifically targeted to the poor. The … component of the post-crisis Social Safety Net package. Brief assessments of the programs show that the targeting of poverty … paper concludes that the effectiveness of various poverty-targeted program in Indonesia are determined by, among other …

), and explore the impact of health care expenditures on household economic status and poverty. Data are drawn from LSMS … surveys and methodologies include ‘catastrophic-health’ analysis, poverty incidence analysis adjusted for health payments, and …-seeking behavior in all transition economies and the cost of illness can increase the incidence and depth of poverty. The impoverishing …

This paper argues that our understanding of income and poverty dynamics benefits from taking a life cycle perspective …

This paper documents the impact of Argentina's recent economic crises on different aspects of poverty, with a special … focus on the economic collapse of 2002. We discuss the methodology of poverty measurement in Argentina and we use a simple … rule to compensate for the lack of regional poverty figures until 2001, providing consistent series of urban poverty …

This paper deals with poverty in developing countries. …

Many authors have insisted on the necessity of defining poverty as a multi-dimensional concept rather than relying on … deprivation into the practical definition and measurement of poverty. Existing attempts along that direction consist of … aggregagting various attributes into a single index through some arbitrary function and defining a poverty line and associated …

Relatively little research has been conducted until now on the multidimensional aspect of poverty measurement, that is … poverty measures defined on various income and non-income attributes and their gaps with respect to pre-specified subsistence … levels. The present paper investigates the properties of a family of poverty measures which generalizes the well-known single …

The poverty levels in Eritrea are alarming. In the light of the escalating nature of poverty, there is an urgent need … for a poverty alleviation initiative to reduce miseries of the majority of the poor. An attempt is made in this paper to … analyse the incidence of poverty in the country with a particular focus on Agriculture. It also shed a light on the …

newly available household surveys have permitted the estimation of measures of poverty among cotton producers in West and … Central Africa, as well as simulations of the impact that changes in producer prices may have on poverty. …