to incentives by targeting their efforts towards more able workers, implying that both the mean and the dispersion …

Using a collective model of consumption, we characterize optimal commodity taxes aimed at targeting specific …

choosing carefully categories of beneficiaries is almost as important as targeting the poor for achieving a high poverty and … inequality impact. Overall, the findings suggest that although in the Latin American context poverty targeting tends to deliver … higher poverty impacts, there are circumstances under which categorical targeting confined to geographical regions (sometimes …

There is a long-standing controversy over the question of whether targeting social transfers towards the bottom part of … empirical underpinning of this claim is a strong inverse relationship at the country level between social transfer targeting and … targeting and redistributive impact over a broad set of empirical specifications, country selections and data sources has in …

The analysis of targeting of cash benefits is typically silent on whether any success is due to encouraging claims from …

involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities and targeting the unemployed under the criteria of "approximate welfare …

targeting children through two general policies, namely selective commodity taxation and cash transfer to family with children …