The paper develops a new approach to measuring the impact of government cash transfers on poverty alleviation that … of changes in government cash benefits on poverty rates in Russia during 1994 to 1998. The methodological contribution is … changes in the expenditure distribution excluding cash transfers on movements in poverty rates. At least 30% of the rise in …

of incomes of future generations. The purpose of this paper is two-fold. From a policy point of view, we analyse poverty … was expensive but that it provided effective - albeit not efficient - poverty relief. From a methodological point of view …, we demonstrate the usefulness of bootstrapping techniques for statistical inference for poverty and inequality measures …

In this paper we re-examine poverty among working class households in inter-war London using the newly computerized …–31. First, we examine how the use of different poverty lines affects the number of households found to be in poverty. We then … analyse the effects of the inter-war social security system in relieving poverty. Finally, we estimate what difference it …

This paper traces the links from trade shocks to poverty in developing countries. It considers the determinants of … household and individual welfare (including potential differences between household members) and then identifies six trade-to-poverty …

resources in the analysis of poverty. Most empirical studies of poverty, however, assume an equal sharing of resources between …, only limited attention has been directed towards addressing how sharing assumptions can be incorporated into poverty … female adults and between adults and children affects the incidence and intensity of poverty. The method is consistent with …

percentage of households in poverty. He attributed the bulk of this decline to government welfare reforms enacted during and … after the War. Some observers have been uneasy about these striking results, especially with the rediscovery of poverty in … the 1960s. In this paper we re-examine the surviving records from the 1950 survey, making the poverty line more consistent …

global poor for many years to come. This “new geography of global poverty”—with the mass of the poor living in stable, non … special weight be given to the poor in poor countries? How, if at all, should international agencies with a focus on poverty … greater debate on the new geography of global poverty. …

Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient issues in contemporary China. China's aging population …