We propose simple graphical methods to identify poverty-reducing marginal reforms of transfer programs. The methods are … based on Program Dominance curves that display cumulative program benefits weighted by powers of poverty gaps. These curves … whether the assessment of marginal program reforms is sensitive to the choice of poverty lines and poverty measures as well as …

A method is proposed to provide robust poverty comparisons and robust evaluations of marginal policy reforms under …

The evaluation of the impact on poverty of social programs depends on how other programs are treated in the analysis … and on the assumptions used for estimating poverty measures. This paper applies a simple yet sound method for allocating … between various programs the total poverty reduction obtained from several programs. Estimates of program impacts are also …

The evaluation of the poverty impact and targeting performance of a given social program may depend on how other … simple yet theoretically sound method for allocating between various programs the overall poverty reduction obtained from a …

This paper shows how to take into account risk aversion when measuring poverty under income variability. An application … to British panel data suggests that income and poverty comparisons between the self-employed and other groups of … order to account for risk aversion and income variability in the measurement of poverty. …

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

poverty in Canada. …

This paper extends the previous literature on the normative links between the measurement of poverty, social welfare … and inequality. We show how, when the range of possible poverty lines is unbounded above, a robust ranking of absolute … poverty may be interpreted as a robust ranking of social welfare, and a robust ranking of relative poverty may be interpreted …

To better understand the geographic determinants of poverty in Albania, this article proposes a methodology similar to … poverty levels. …

for comparing relative poverty. The results warn against the use of some popular indices of inequality.\ They do, however … poverty and restricted inequality. We also illustrate graphically how the new criteria of restricted inequality dominance …