We interpret social transfers broadly as a set of measures to reduce or relieve poverty, and study how well this … the countries for a range of definitions of the poverty threshold. The methods are also applied to two subpopulations of …

We interpret social transfers broadly as a set of measures to reduce or relieve poverty, and study how well this … the countries for a range of definitions of the poverty threshold. The methods are also applied to two subpopulations of … transfers ; poverty gap …

We provide evidence of the relative cost-effectiveness of different types of policy instrument in reducing poverty or … find that the assessment of the most cost effective instrument may depend on the measure of poverty used and the direction … and scale of the change. Nevertheless, our results indicate that the options that reduce poverty most cost-effectively in …