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This work analyses the targeting performance and the impact evaluation of three projects. The first paper is about the … water subsidies in the Republic of Congo. The study shows that the self-targeting scheme, using an Inverse Block Tariff …-poor. The self-targeting mechanism used in the Public Work program in Liberia works better since the proportion of poor involved …
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we show that the plausible policy decision depend on parameters describing the balance between poverty and program … exclusion risk. In the Tunisian case, only a much larger weight put on poverty relatively to exclusion could bring the decision …
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targeting performances. Post-transfer poverty can be substantially reduced with the new estimation method. In terms of P2, the …This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. Our method is based on estimation … methods that focus on the poor. Using data from Tunisia, we estimate ‘focused’ transfer schemes that highly improve anti-poverty …
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In this paper, a novel approach is implemented to quantify the effects on poverty and inequality of the financial … crisis that hit Indonesia in 1997. It relies on the combination of a microsimulation model and a standard CGE model. These …
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According to economic theory, health insurance raises medical care consumptions by inducing ex-post moral hazard behavior, it is to say the purchase of health care that individual value below their production cost. Nevertheless, among the economists community, some suggest that these additional...
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Small entrepreneurs in poor countries achieve relatively high marginal returns to capital but show only low re-investment rates. The literature is rather inconclusive about the possible causes. We explore whether ‘forced redistribution’, i.e. abusive demands by the kin, affects the...
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In cost-utility analysis results are often processed in terms of QALY (Quality Adjusted Life Year). The duration of a given health state is weighted with a coefficient calculated based on its associated quality of life. Using such an indicator assumes two things: knowing the health state of the...
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This paper studies efficient risk-sharing rules for the concave dominance order. For a univariate risk, it follows from a comonotone dominance principle, due to Landsberger and Meilijson (1994) [27], that efficiency is characterized by a comonotonicity condition. The goal of the paper is to...
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