contract - to those of its neighbours in Southern Africa. It is the result of the specific character of poverty in Botswana and …

This paper assesses the effects on poverty and inequality of the alternative targeting approaches that Zambia's Social … government introduced support based on giving actual cash through social cash transfers aimed at reducing poverty and … of social cash transfers, nationwide extreme poverty would be 1.6 percentage points higher than otherwise. The results …

We provide evidence of the relative cost-effectiveness of different types of policy instrument in reducing poverty or … find that the assessment of the most cost effective instrument may depend on the measure of poverty used and the direction … and scale of the change. Nevertheless, our results indicate that the options that reduce poverty most cost-effectively in …