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Social Assistance and Poverty Reduction in Moldova, 2001-2004 : An Impact Evaluation

Verme, Paolo - 2008

incidence analysis suggests that increased spending on social assistance enhances the probability of moving out of poverty and … reduces the probability of moving into poverty. However, double difference estimates (based on a mimicked randomized … household welfare or reduce poverty. Double difference estimates point to a negative impact on welfare. Parametric estimates do …

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The distributional impact of social spending in Peru

Gaentzsch, Anja - 2018

Peru has made great progress in reducing poverty and inequality in the past decade alongside high economic growth …. Albeit this progress, the incidence of poverty and inequality remain high. This paper examines the distributional and poverty … poverty reduction. It decreases absolute poverty by 2-3 percentage points in terms of monetary income and up to 9 percentage …

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Measuring unfair inequality : reconciling equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty

Hufe, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Peichl, Andreas - 2020

poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …

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Inequality-minimization with a given public budget

König, Johannes; Schröder, Carsten - 2016

We solve the problem of a social planner who seeks to minimize inequality via transfers with a fixed public budget in a distribution of exogenously given incomes. The appropriate solution method depends on the objective function: If it is convex, as in the case of the absolute mean deviation, it...

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Group lending or individual lending? : evidence from a randomised field experiment in Mongolia

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Augsburg, Britta; Haas, Ralph de; … - 2014

Although microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending towards individual lending, this strategic shift is not substantiated by sufficient empirical evidence on the impact of both types of lending on borrowers. We present such evidence from a randomised field...

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Getting the poor to work : three welfare increasing reforms for a busy Germany

Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Steiner, Viktor - 2015

We study three budget-neutral reforms of the German tax and transfer system designed to improve work incentives for people with low incomes: a feasible flat tax reform that provides a basic income which is equal to the current level of the means tested unemployment benefit, and two alternative...

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