arise from the double objectives of these programmes?namely, short-run poverty alleviation and breaking the … intergenerational transmission of poverty though human capital accumulation. We also examine how both programmes address these tensions …

Poverty affects a large proportion of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa and, far from decreasing, the proportion and … numbers of poor people in Sub-Saharan Africa have actually increased over the last ten years. Policies to reduce poverty in … dimensions of poverty. Therefore we investigate here both the impact of a cash transfer on current poverty and the impact of …

1995 and 2004 as well as its impact on poverty. We use the 2004 Brazilian National Household Survey (PNAD) that for the … living below the poverty line (half of minimum wage per capita), and that they were jointly responsible for 28% of the fall …