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Evaluating Alternative Approaches to Poverty Alleviation
Dorosh, Paul A. - 2008
for poverty alleviation. Although there are likely to be substantial efficiency gains from tariff reductions, these accrue …
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Targeting Social Transfers to the Poor in Mexico
Coady, David - 2009
Mexico's main social support program, Oportunidades, combines two methods to target cash to poor households: an initial self-selection by households who acquire knowledge about the program and apply for benefits, followed by an administrative determination of eligibility based on a means test....
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Strengthening Income Stabilization through Social Protection in Emerging and Developing Economies : The Brazilian Experience
Brollo, Fernanda - 2024
tools. This study assesses AE's effectiveness in income stabilization, poverty reduction, and inequality. Results show that …
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Do Workers' Remittances Promote Economic Growth?
Gapen, Michael T.; Chami, Ralph; Montiel, Peter; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
undeniable that remittances have poverty-alleviating and consumption-smoothing effects on recipient households, a key empirical …
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When is Growth Pro-Poor? Cross-Country Evidence
Kraay, Aart - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. This implies three potential sources of pro-poor growth …: (a) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (b) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes; and (c) a … poverty-reducing pattern of growth in relative incomes. I empirically decompose changes in poverty in a large sample of …
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Harnessing Satellite Data to Improve Social Assistance Targeting in the Eastern Caribbean
Chen, Sophia - 2024
Prioritizing populations most in need of social assistance is an important policy decision. In the Eastern Caribbean, social assistance targeting is constrained by limited data and the need for rapid support in times of large economic and natural disaster shocks. We leverage recent advances in...
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The Aging of the Population and the Size of the Welfare State
Swagel, Phillip; Sadka, Efraim; Razin, Assaf - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
Data for the United States and countries in Western Europe indicate a negative correlation between the dependency ratio and both labor tax rates and the generosity of social transfers, after controlling for other factors that influence the size of the welfare state. This is despite the increased...
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Public Pension Reform: A Primer
Jousten, Alain - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
The present paper reviews key issues in pension design and pension reform encountered all across the world. The paper heavily refers to the recent U.S. Social Security reform debate in general and to the Personal Retirement Accounts proposal in particular. A particular emphasis is put on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826298
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Population Aging in Japan; Demographic Shock and Fiscal Sustainability
Mühleisen, Martin; Faruqee, Hamid - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
The paper develops a general equilibrium framework to examine the economic implications of population aging in Japan. Particular attention is paid to aggregate saving behavior which is modeled on the basis of empirical age-earnings profiles using a life-cycle approach. The paper's objectives are...
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Social Security Reforms in Colombia
Clavijo, Sergio - 2009
This paper analyzes the economic rationale for adopting parametric pension reforms and reforms broadening the coverage of public health care in Colombia during 1993-2008. Parametric pension reforms have focused on increasing the retirement age and moderating replacement rates. The health system...
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