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 …

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 …

, and Nutrition / Frankenberg, Elizabeth / Thomas, Duncan -- 2. Poverty and Cognitive Function / Dean, Emma Boswell … / Schilbach, Frank / Schofield, Heather -- Comment on Chapters 1 and 2 / Hoddinott, John -- II. Psychology of Poverty, Hope, and …. Hope as Aspirations, Agency, and Pathways. Poverty Dynamics and Microfinance in Oaxaca, Mexico / Lybbert, Travis J …

increase employment and to reduce poverty and public assistance. We also find some evidence that higher welfare benefits had … longer-run adverse effects, and quite robust evidence that tighter welfare time limits reduce poverty and public assistance … in the longer run. The evidence on the long-run effects of the minimum wage on poverty and public assistance is not …

Nutrition / Elizabeth Frankenberg and Duncan Thomas -- 2. Poverty and Cognitive Function / Emma Boswell Dean, Frank Schilbach …, and Heather Schofield -- Comment on Chapters 1 and 2: John Hoddinott -- II. Psychology of Poverty, Hope, and Aspirations … Aspirations, Agency, and Pathways: Poverty Dynamics and Microfinance in Oaxaca, Mexico / Travis J. Lybbert and Bruce Wydick …

productive safety net below the vulnerable and keeps them from slipping into a poverty trap. Much of the value of the productive … explores the implications of different mechanisms of targeting social protection transfers. In the presence of poverty traps …, modestly regressive targeting based on critical asset thresholds may have better long-run poverty reduction effects than …