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Should Cash Transfers Be Confined to the Poor? Implications for Poverty and Inequality in Latin America
Acosta, Pablo A.; Leite, Phillippe; Rigolini, Jamele - 2011
This paper compares for 13 Latin American countries the poverty and inequality impacts of cash transfer programs that … to the poor within each population group (that is, poverty targeted transfers). The analysis finds that both the … incidence of poverty and the depth of the poverty gap are important factors affecting the relative effectiveness of categorical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331388
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Tackling social exclusion: Evidence from Chile
Carneiro, Pedro; Galasso, Emanuela; Ginja, Rita - 2014
extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396722
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Tackling social exclusion: Evidence from Chile
Carneiro, Pedro; Galasso, Emanuela; Ginja, Rita - 2014
extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282645
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Social assistance and minimum income protection in the EU: Vulnerability, adequacy, and convergence
Nelson, Kenneth - 2009
investigated countries provide social assistance benefits above the EU near poverty threshold. Social assistance benefit levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335403
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Social protection and response to COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean: Innovations in registration and payment systems
Palomo, Nurth; Faulbaum, Luis Vargas; Machado, Anna Carolina - 2022
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has hit the foundations of the economy and provoked devastating social effects in all the countries in the world, being Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) one of the most affected regions. This report updates the regional overview of the response measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013407263
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European Anti-Poverty Policies in the 1990s: Toward a Common Safety Net?
Sainsbury, Diane; Morissens, Ann - 2002
Using the notion of the poverty regime as a heuristic device, this paper examines the safety nets of several members of … enlargement of the European Union for the creation of a common safety net? Initially several dimensions of the poverty regime are … employed to compare the safety nets. Subsequently we analyze the incidence of poverty and poverty reduction for the entire …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653033
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The marginal propensity to earn, consume and save out of unearned income in South Africa
Bengtsson, Niklas - 2010
We use a rapid introduction of an unconditional cash grant (child support) in South Africa to estimate the marginal propensity to consume and earn out of a permanent change in unearned income. We find that the marginal propensity to earn is about to -0.25 for single-adult households, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321432
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Social Policies for a Recovery
Immervoll, Herwig; Llena-Nozal, Ana - 2011
The fallout from the global economic downturn of 2008-09 is a continuing source of stress on families and a constraint on government policies. How can social policies contribute to a quick and equitable recovery from the crisis and how can they best respond to the difficulties that households...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331437
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The social policies of emerging economies: Growth and welfare in China and India
de Haan, Arjan - 2013
Social policies play a critical role in the transformation of emerging economies. This paper discusses this with reference to China and India, with their very distinctive public policy approaches. Much of the economics literature either does not pay much attention to social policy or regards it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397192
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Mechanisms of poverty alleviation
Nelson, Kenneth - 2004
Substantial cross-national differences in poverty alleviation are well documented, but theextent to which different …-targeted provisions and means-tested benefits reduce relative economic poverty in different institutional settings. It is shown that the … poverty alleviation across countries. The study also presents a new method for estimating the anti-poverty effects of separate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335363