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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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Did conditional cash transfers in the Productive Safety Net Program empower women in Tigray, north-east Ethiopia?
Desalegne Gelagay, Megos; Lecoutere, Els - Instituut voor Ontwikkelingsbeleid - 2019
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Social security strategies and redistributive effects in European social transfer systems
Kraus, Margit - 2000
This paper evaluates the linkage between social security strategies and redistributive effects in EU social transfer systems. It is argued that the various European systems produce different patterns of redistribution that may be explained by the adoption of different mixes of social security...
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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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Minimum wages and poverty
Addison, John T. - 1998
employing rather restrictive assumptions that guarantee the conclusion that an increase in the minimum wage reduces poverty. In … contemporaneous changes in poverty rates. For the period 1983-96, we find indication of a poverty-reducing effect of minimum wages …
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Cash benefits to disabled persons in Brazil : an analysis of BPC : continuous cash benefit programme
Souza, Marcelo Medeiros Coelho de; Diniz, Déborah; … - 2015
The paper presents an analysis of the Continuous Cash Benefit Programme (BPC, which stands for Benefício de Prestação Continuada in Portuguese), an unconditional cash transfer to the elderly or to extremely poor individuals with disabilities. The information used in the assessment stems from...
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Poverty alleviation and the degree of centralisation in European schemes of social assistance
Hölsch, Katja - 2003
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Comparing income transfer systems : is Australia the poor relation?
Mitchell, Deborah - 1990
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Can cash transfers really be transformative? : a literature review of the sustainability of their impacts
Grisolia, Filippo - 2024
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The CoViD-19 pandemic and mental health : disentangling crucial channels
Siflinger, Bettina; Paffenholz, Michaela; Seitz, Sebastian - 2021
Since the start of the CoViD-19 pandemic, a major source of concern has been its effect on mental health. Using pre- pandemic information and have customized questionnaires in the Dutch LISS panel, we investigate how mental health in the working population has evolved along with the most...
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