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Assessing the Targeting Performance of Social Programs: Cape Verde
Angel-Urdinola, Diego; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Budget constraints faced by governments in developing countries imply that the targeting performance of public … subsidies and social programs (whether the subsidies are provided in cash or in kind) is important for reducing poverty. In this … various targeting systems (including proxy means testing and geographic targeting) could help to improve targeting performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621292
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Performance Pay and Information: Reducing Child Malnutrition in Urban Slums
Singh, Prakarsh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper provides evidence for the effectiveness of performance pay to government workers and how performance pay interacts with demand-side information. In an experiment covering 145 child day-care centres, I implement three separate treatments. First, I engineer an exogenous change in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220685
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Fiscal Responsibility And Economic Efficiency:A Functional Approach
Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
offers new opportunities to hundreds of millions of rural poor to move out of poverty. Similarly, the construction industry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836865
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Social Welfare Analysis of Income Distributions: Ranking Income Distributions with Generalised Lorenz Curves
Bellù, Lorenzo Giovanni; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This module illustrates how Generalised Lorenz (GL) Curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds, within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options, in many of the cases where ordinary Lorenz curves fail to work After...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257958
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Charting Income Inequality: The Lorenz Curve
Bellù, Lorenzo G.; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper explains how to build Lorenz Curves for income distributions and discusses their use for inequality measurement. A short conceptual background, a step-by-step procedure and a simple numerical example illustrate how to calculate and draw Lorenz Curves. A discussion on the use of Lorenz...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919738
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Social Welfare Analysis of Income Distributions: Ranking Income Distributions with Crossing Generalised Lorenz Curves
Bellù, Lorenzo Giovanni; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper illustrates how Crossing Generalised Lorenz (GL) curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options. It starts by illustrating two alternative income distributions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008924809
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Social Welfare Analysis of Income Distributions: Ranking Income Distributions with Lorenz Curves
Bellù, Lorenzo Giovanni; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper illustrates how Lorenz Curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds, within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options. After highlighting some drawbacks of using specific functional forms of the Social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009004151
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Market Myths in Contemporary Economics
Punabantu, Siize - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper elaborates on the economic operating system (EOS) the role it can play in growth. It focuses on markets, price determination and forces of demand and supply in order to illustrate how an EOS model offers greater economic growth, stability and safety. This paper delves into market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685520
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Analyzing the Potential Impact of Indirect Tax Reforms on Poverty with Limited Data: Niger
Sehili, Saloua; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa are confronted with the need to raise tax revenues in order to be able to provide a range of services to their populations. Yet taxes and other government revenues as a proportion of GDP are lowest in the poorest countries that need to expand their services...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789926
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Partnerships for Women's Health - Striving for Best Practice within the UN Global Compact / United Nations University Research Brief 1/2009 (www.unu.edu)
Timmermann, Martina; Kruesmann, Monika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Every minute, at least one woman dies from pregnancy and childbirth complications; a further 20 suffer injury, infection or disease. Despite medical advances, and years of policy declarations, this tragic situation remains particularly severe in developing countries, violating a fundamental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008566435