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Workfare versus transfers in rural India

Alik-Lagrange, Arthur; Ravallion, Martin - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 112 (2018), pp. 244-258

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Is Workfare Cost-Effective against Poverty in a Poor Labor-Surplus Economy?

Murgai, Rinku - 2013

Workfare schemes impose work requirements on beneficiaries. This has seemed an attractive idea for self-targeting transfers to poor people. This incentive argument does not imply, however, that workfare is more cost-effective against poverty than even poorly-targeted options, given hidden costs...

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Inconsistent policy evaluation : a case study for a large workfare program

Alik-Lagrange, Arthur; Ravallion, Martin - 2015

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Identifying Welfare Effects from Subjective Questions

Ravallion, Martin - 1999

effects are weak at a given current income. And the effect of unemployment is not robust. Returning to work does not restore a … sense of welfare unless there is an income gain. The results imply that even transient unemployment brings the feeling of a … permanent welfare loss, suggesting that high unemployment benefits do not attract people out of work but do discourage a return …

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Is workfare cost-effective against poverty in a poor labor-surplus economy?

Murgai, Rinku; Ravallion, Martin; Van de Walle, Dominique - In: The World Bank economic review 30 (2016) 3, pp. 413-445

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Are the poor protected from budget cuts? : theory and evidence for Argentina

Ravallion, Martin - 2000

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Is more targeting consistent with less spending?

Ravallion, Martin - 1999

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Weakly relative poverty

Ravallion, Martin - 2009

"Prevailing measures of relative poverty put an implausibly high weight on relative deprivation, such that measured poverty does not fall when all incomes grow at the same rate. This stems from the (implicit) assumption in past measures that very poor people incur a negligible cost of social...

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The Pattern of Growth and Poverty Reduction in China

Montalvo, Jose G. - 2009

China has seen a huge reduction in the incidence of extreme poverty since the economic reforms that started in the late 1970s. Yet, the growth process has been highly uneven across sectors and regions. The paper tests whether the pattern of China´s growth mattered to poverty reduction using a...

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Has India's Economic Growth Become More Pro-Poor in the Wake of Economic Reforms ?

Datt, Gaurav - 2009

The extent to which India's poor have benefited from the country’s economic growth has long been debated. This paper revisits the issues using a new series of consumption-based poverty measures spanning 50 years, and including a 15-year period after economic reforms began in earnest in the...

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