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The Economy-wide Impacts of the South African Child Support Grant: a Micro-Simulation-Computable General Equilibrium Analysis

Tiberti, Luca; Maisonnave, Hélène; Chitiga, Margaret; … - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2013

-up/top-down approach. This allows us to estimate the potential effects on households’ welfare and on the economy following a change in the …

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Decomposing Poverty Changes into Vertical and Horizontal Components

Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2003

welfare distances between those poor of initially unequal welfare status, and/or to emerging disparities in welfare among … those poor of initially similar welfare status. This note uses a general cost-of-inequality approach that decomposes the …

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Equity and Policy Effectiveness with Imperfect Targeting

Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2003

We propose a general cost-of-inequality approach that jointly integrates horizontal and vertical equity criteria in the assessment of poverty alleviation programs, with the strength of each criterion being captured through its own inequity-aversion parameter. This contrasts with the assessment...

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Effets redistributifs d'un régime d'allocation universelle: une simulation pour le Québec

Araar, Abdelkrim; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Blais, François - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2003

The paper simulates the redistributive impact of three possible scenarios for the introduction of a basic income (BI, also sometimes called "citizens' income") in Québec. The simulations are revenue neutral at the joint provincial-federal government level. The first scenario assumes that a set...

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What is "Pro-Poor"?

Duclos, Jean-Yves; Wodon, Quentin - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2004

Assessing whether distributional changes are "pro-poor" has become increasingly widespread in academic and policy circles. Starting from relatively general ethical axioms, this paper proposes simple graphical methods to test whether distributional changes are indeed pro-poor. Pro-poor standards...

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Poverty-Efficient Transfer Programs: The Role of Targeting and Allocation Rules

Duclos, Jean-Yves; Makdissi, Paul; Wodon, Quentin - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2003

We propose simple graphical methods to identify poverty-reducing transfer program reforms. The methods are based on Program Dominance curves that display cumulative program benefits weighted by powers of poverty gaps. These curves can be decomposed simply as sums of targeting dominance curves...

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Poverty-Decreasing Indirect Tax Reforms: Evidence from Tunisia

Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2004

This paper suggests a methodology to identify socially-desirable directions for poverty-alleviating tax reforms. The cost-benefit ratio of increasing any commodity-tax rate is derived from the minimization of a poverty measure subject to a revenue requirement for the government. Further, to...

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On the Impact of Better Targeted Transfers on Poverty in Tunisia

Bibi, Sami - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2002

This paper describes the effects of general food subsidies on poverty in Tunisia, as revealed by household survey data for 1990. The analysis indicates that the poorest certainly take advantage of this system, but at the price of considerable leakages to non-poor people and at a sizeable...

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Using a Canadian-American Natural Experiment to Study Relative Efficiencies of Social Welfare Payment Systems

Tanguay, Georges; Hunt, Gary; Marceau, Nicolas - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2002

We study whether social welfare recipients may end up paying more for their grocery if social welfare payments are more … timing of social welfare payments in Montreal, Canada compared to the timing in Bangor, Maine. We find some statistically … significant evidence of : i) a negative effect on prices in the week of social welfare check issue ; ii) increasing prices over a …

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Foreign Direct Investments in Africa's Farmlands: Threat or Opportunity for Local Populations?

Dessy, Sylvain; Gohou, Gaston; Vencatachellum, Désiré - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2012

We study the welfare effects of government-backed FDIs in Africa’s farmlands. We build an occupational choice model …

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