Official poverty figures in Uganda are flawed by the fact that the underlying poverty lines are based on a single … national food basket that was constructed in the early 1990s. In this paper, we estimate a new set of poverty lines that … poverty lines, we then look at poverty dynamics using four waves of the Uganda National Panel Survey. We classify households …

reach a very small proportion of the households with incomes below a relative poverty line. Furthermore, the transfers are … characterized with very high non-take up and inclusion of non-entitled or non-poor recipients. Poverty rates decrease by a small … degree among benefit clients and yet, the impact is insufficient to affect overall poverty, or for the benefits to achieve …

a very small proportion of the households with incomes below a relative poverty line. Furthermore, the transfers are … characterized with very high non-take up and inclusion of non-entitled or non-poor recipients. Poverty rates decrease by a small … degree among benefit clients and yet, the impact is insufficient to affect overall poverty, or for the benefits to achieve …

The "Minimum Vital Income" (IMV) constitutes a novelty in the panorama for fighting poverty by guaranteeing minimum … incomes after the COVID-19 crisis. This work simulates the distributional and poverty effects of the IMV introduction across … Spanish regions using EUROMOD. Our results show that the IMV reduces inequality and poverty - general and extreme - for all …

. Data from the national Demographic and Health Survey are used to improve measurement of poverty in Kenya in four ways … measurement of multidimensional poverty based on the CWI and health status. Third, stochastic dominance approaches are used to …This paper generates multidimensional poverty profiles for women and children over a ten-year period from 1993 to 2003 …

In this paper the Markov model has been used to analyze poverty dynamics in Benin. Assuming that the observed …-step-analysis method is used to derive several indicators to measure the relevance of poverty reduction policies implemented in Benin. Data … poverty objective in 2015, probably five years later. There exists a high well-being mobility characterized by an important …

evolved mostly as an intellectual/academic shell, in which poverty eradication, except in rhetoric, is a peripheral concern … causing a shift toward substantively dealing with the challenge of poverty. However, beyond the issue of type of enterprises …/monetary sector, as opposed to the real sector, may prove inadequate for development and poverty alleviation. This paper explores some …

poverty.The basic premise of the work-first model that continuing participation in the labor force will lead to economic self … at least three quarters a year over a multi-year period, which are the prerequisites for rising above the poverty … these workers to the poverty threshold would increase economic output by another three-quarters of a billion dollars a year …