We evaluate the costs of three different programs for alleviating long term poverty: (i) workfare, or grants made … compare them with the corresponding conditions for short term poverty alleviation. We find that the arguments for using work … requirements are both strenghtened and weakened with long term poverty. We also find that as the fraction of really needy persons …

When measuring poverty over time analysts must choose the value of the income elacticity of the poverty line. The …. Borrowing from the life-style and deprivation approach to poverty various dimensions of poverty and deprivation are identified … and the income elasticity of these items is used as the income elasticity of the poverty line. …

Results from poverty studies are sensitive to the choice f the poverty line. Poverty dominance analysis uses stochastic … dominance to provide rankings of distributions in terms of poverty which are not sensitive to the choice of poverty lines or … which at least give an unambiguous results over a wide range of poverty lines. …

from non-representative surveys yield imprecise estimates of poverty and inequality. This paper therefore estimates poverty … and inequality using poverty mapping methods. In contrast to previous studies, however, we use ethnicity rather than …, but that inequality rates are also lower for indigenous groups. These reliable estimates of poverty and inequality may …

Using consumption/expenditure based poverty lines, the 1995/6 estimated poverty measures indicate an overall headcount … index of 22.9 percent, which is slightly higher in rural areas. The paper shows that in Egypt, poverty is highly growth … elastic, and thus poverty reduction will improve with higher rates of growth provided the growth process does not lead to an …

Poverty analysis in Tunisia so far depends heavily upon the choice of poverty lines. In this paper we propose to adopt …. This will then enable us to analyze poverty in Tunisia in a robust manner and find that poverty is actually a rural …