potential impacts. This study simulates the impact of alternative cash transfer programs on school attendance and poverty among … reduce child poverty and encourage school attendance. If means-testing is not feasible, then programs targeting the children …

This chapter offers a primer on poverty, inequality, and vulnerability analysis and a guide to resources on this topic …. It is written for decision makers who want to define the type of information they need to monitor poverty reduction and … translated from an English version published in the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook. …

end of 2002, poverty is likely to be high and to have risen in recent years even compared to its high postconflict level …. The first objective of this chapter is to estimate the share of the population in poverty in 2002, predict how it may have … evolved since then, and assess the levels of growth that will be required to reduce poverty measures in the future. The …

This article investigates the relationships among economic growth, income distribution and poverty in Brazil during the … variations in the poverty indicators and the main components that answer for this variation - decomposition model;another that … simulates the effects of the variation of the income and the concentration indicators on the poverty level - model of elasticity …

We evaluate the impact of the rise in food prices during 2006-2008 on the poverty and extreme poverty rates in Mexico … prices of food products. We find a modest increase in poverty using 2006-2007 prices, however, there is a daunting effect on … in 2008, such as reduced taxes and tariffs on food products and greater subsidies to the extremely poor, the poverty rate …

This chapter offers a primer on poverty, inequality, and vulnerability analysis and a guide to resources on this topic …. It is written for decision makers who want to define the type of information they need to monitor poverty reduction and … translated from an English version published in the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook. …

poverty over time, but this was mainly due to the adoption of a relative measure of poverty and to comparability issues … between the surveys. The task of assessing the trends in poverty and inequality was also made more difficult because the unit … necessary to estimate poverty and inequality using group data. In this paper, we use the Poverty module of SimSIP in order to …

This chapter offers a primer on poverty, inequality, and vulnerability analysis and a guide to resources on this topic …. It is written for decision makers who want to define the type of information they need to monitor poverty reduction and … translated from an English version published in the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook. …

In this work we will analyze the spatial correlation of poverty and inequality (FGT0 and FGT1) in Bolivia using data at … municipal level, we also study the determinants of poverty using a spatial autoregressive model (SAR). …