optimal anti-poverty budgetary rules for two kinds of intervention, direct income transfers and wage employment programmes. …

Empirical evidence in the sparse literature on poverty convergence currently relies on cross-sectional analysis, where … Less Developed Countries (LDCs) starting out poorer are found to have enjoyed no faster subsequent poverty reduction during … the past three decades than those starting out richer, as initial poverty retards growth and makes it less effective in …

Programs to fight poverty aim at allowing individuals to support themselves ex-post, when they are not part of the …

This study employs the logistic regression method to examine the effect of financial inclusion on the level of poverty … the level of poverty. This empirical outcome is further validated by the results of the Probit regression technique which … show a significant negative relationship between financial inclusion and poverty in the state. Based on these empirical …

regression ; Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty measures ; NHANES …

We develop a poverty decomposition method that is based on a consumption regression model. Because this method uses an … integral of the partial derivatives of a poverty measure with respect to time, the resulting poverty decomposition satisfies … time-reversion consistency and sub-period additivity. Unlike the existing poverty decomposition methods, it allows us to …

households.Some of the paper's results are similar to typical findings in poverty research, such as U-shaped relationship between …

This paper analyzes several modifications to improve a simple measure of vulnerability as expected poverty. Firstly, in …

We develop a poverty decomposition method that is based on a consumption regression model. Because this method uses an … integral of the partial derivatives of a poverty measure with respect to time, the resulting poverty decomposition satisfies … time-reversion consistency and sub-period additivity. Unlike the existing poverty decomposition methods, it allows us to …