Social Assistance in Developing Countries

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Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; Part I Introduction; 1 The emergence of social assistance in developing countries; What is new?; Why social assistance?; Why now?; What to expect from anti-poverty transfers?; The end game: institution building and poverty eradication; Breaking new ground; Structure of the book; Part II Foundations; 2 Ethical foundations; Justifications for assisting those in poverty; Individual morality and assistance; Assistance within a political conception of justice; The value and limits of assistance; Priority; Sufficiency; Sufficiency and priority

The ethical foundations of assisting those in poverty3 Poverty concepts and measures for social assistance; What is poverty?; Measuring poverty: how much poverty is in...?; Well-being indicators and thresholds; Identification and aggregation; Commonly used poverty indexes; The Foster-Greer-Thorbecke measure; The Watts measure; The Sen measure; Multidimensional indexes; Axioms and dominance; Poverty dynamics and vulnerability; Global poverty?; Conclusions; Additional Notes A3; A3.1 Equivalence scales; A3.2 Poverty functions; A3.3 Relational poverty measures; A3.4 Dominance

A3.5 Selected poverty measure axiomsA3.6 Duration poverty measures; 4 Optimal anti-poverty transfers; Optimal allocation of a limited anti-poverty budget; Income maintenance transfers; Taxpayers' preferences and government anti-poverty policy; A basic income maintenance programme; Classification; Productive capacity; Work incentives; Generosity; Welfarist approaches to optimal transfers; Conclusions; Part III Practice; 5 Anti-poverty transfers in practice; Social assistance in developed and developing countries; Typology of anti-poverty transfer programmes in developing countries

Programme objectivesBeneficiary selection; Transfer modalities; Co-responsibility and conditions; Duration and exit; Conclusions; 6 Incidence, implementation and impact; Incidence; Measuring errors in selection; A process approach; Implementation; Vertical and horizontal coordination; Information; Impact; Impact on poverty; Impact on consumption; Impact on productive capacity; Long-term effects of transfers?; Labour supply effects; Conclusions; Additional Notes A6; A6.1 Measures of incidence; A6.2 Difference-in-difference measures of impact; 7 Budgets, finance and politics

Social assistance budgetsSocial assistance expenditure in developing countries; Needs assessments of social assistance expenditure; Financing anti-poverty transfers; The revenue mobilisation approach and its drawbacks; Financing mix and trends; The financing mix and social assistance; Incentives; Legitimacy; Conclusions; Part IV Conclusion; 8 The future of social assistance in developing countries; Main challenges ahead; Evolution of social assistance; Poverty research and social assistance; Evolution in programme design; Primacy of national governments; Linking taxes and transfers

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