Schmidt -- Comment: Robert Topel -- Effects of Welfare Reform on Family Income -- and Poverty -- Ron Haskins -- Comment …

-kind and cash transfers in the poor rural areas of southern states of Mexico. The intent-to-treat effect on poverty of cash …

and social pensions — are being implemented in Latin American and Caribbean countries with the aim of ending poverty and … terms of the labour supply, formalization and child labour among the target population. Considering that poverty is a … structural problem of highly unequal societies, the thesis that poverty is due to a lack of effort on the part of the poor is …

This paper assesses the impact of fiscal policy on the incidence, depth, and severity of poverty, and examines whether … combined effect of taxes and social spending helped substantially to reduce poverty and inequality in Poland in 2014, in line … capacity to redistribute, it had a relatively weak capacity to reduce poverty given the resources at its disposal, and this was …

This paper compares for 13 Latin American countries the poverty and inequality impacts of cash transfer programs that … confined to the poor within each population group (that is, "poverty targeted" transfers). The analysis finds that both the … incidence of poverty and the depth of the poverty gap are important factors affecting the relative effectiveness of categorical …