Progressively targeted cash transfers remain the dominant policy response to chronic poverty in developing countries …. But are there alternative social protection policies that might have larger poverty impacts over time for the same public … vulnerable, but non-poor households in the wake of negative shocks, can result in lower rates of poverty in the medium term than …

predictions about poverty and deprivation, the previous research shows that caseloads declined and employment increased, with no … detectible increase in poverty or worsening of child-well-being. We re-evaluate these results in light of the severe recession … children is more responsive after reform, and some evidence that it might be less so. There is some evidence that poverty …