In 2002 the Government of Quebec enacted Bill 112, known as An Act to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion. It has also … poverty and social exclusion. The Committee published a series of recommendations in 2009 that more or less amount to a …

The poverty impact of indirect tax reforms is analyzed using sequential stochastic dominance methods. This allows …

, show that trade liberalization reduces poverty in Senegal, particularly in rural areas. While the fall in the relative …

We propose a general cost-of-inequality approach that jointly integrates horizontal and vertical equity criteria in the … assessment of poverty alleviation programs, with the strength of each criterion being captured through its own inequity …-aversion parameter. This contrasts with the assessment of poverty alleviation programs done with simple under-coverage and leakage ratios …

of improving social welfare or decreasing poverty for large classes of social welfare and poverty indices. It also … derives estimators of critical poverty lines and economic efficiency ratios which can be used to characterize socially …

Variations in aggregate poverty indices can be due to differences in average poverty intensity, to changes in the … those poor of initially similar welfare status. This note uses a general cost-of-inequality approach that decomposes the … total change in poverty into a sum of indices of each of these three components. This decomposition can serve inter alia to …

prices changes. These effects are then used to infer the impact on poverty and inequality following the top-down approach … the impact of trade liberalization on agricultural growth, poverty and income distribution. Conventional models ignore … however the channels linking technical change in agriculture, trade openness and poverty. This study seeks to incorporate …

appropriately targeted poverty alleviation programs. …