This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. Our method is based on estimation … methods that focus on the poor. Using data from Tunisia, we estimate ‘focused’ transfer schemes that highly improve anti-poverty … targeting performances. Post-transfer poverty can be substantially reduced with the new estimation method. In terms of P2, the …

we show that the plausible policy decision depend on parameters describing the balance between poverty and program … exclusion risk. In the Tunisian case, only a much larger weight put on poverty relatively to exclusion could bring the decision …

In this paper, we examine the effect of migrants’ remittances on poverty and inequality. The survey data were collected … scenario without remittances; this is then compared with its current income. We find that the poverty rate and the …

This article attempts to assess empirically the impact of remittances on household expenditure and relative poverty in … poverty. The results show a statistically significant and positive impact of hose remittances on recipient households …’ expenditures. They are also significantly associated with a decline in the probability of being in poverty for rural households; it …

impact in terms of poverty reduction is important in both projects involved in this type of analysis (Modernization of …

The aim of this article is to analyse in depth the interactions of growth and poverty in Syria, which undertook reforms … agriculture a decreasing one. Agricultural and land-policy reforms could have had a negative impact on poverty, despite their …

Dimensions of Poverty have been appended to household surveys by National Statistics Institutes in twelve African and Latin …

-2008), we tell the story of this descent into hell from the standpoint of poverty and living standards. In 2008, after five … years of civil war and another episode yet to come (2010-11), extreme 1.25 USD poverty headcount had reached a historical … record in poverty, with northern areas deeply impoverished by the partition …

Previous poverty assessments for Burkina Faso were biased due to the neglect of some important methodological issues …. This led to the so-called ‘Burkinabè Growth-Poverty-Paradox’, i.e. relatively sustained macro-economic growth, but almost … constant poverty. We estimate that poverty significantly decreased between 1994 and 2003 at least on the national level, i …

after the devaluation, poverty incidence plummeted slightly. Extreme poverty decreased, and growth has been pro-poor to some …, nutrition and health. The high degree of inequality is important for explaining the disappointing results in poverty reduction …. The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) gives priority to investment in education and health supply. In countries like …