This publication reviews techniques and tools that can be used to evaluate the poverty and distributional impact of economic policy choices. The tools reviewed here help to measure the trade-offs and consequences of economic policies that affect countries through various means. Each chapter addresses a specific technique, its benefits and applications, and also includes the household data that was used to describe economic welfare distribution. The book focuses on the microeconomic level, but also deals with the link between macro modeling and microeconomic distribution of economic welfare.