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Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create …
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We analyze microdata from Mexico's survey on household income and expenditures (ENIGH) to study the evolution of income inequality in Mexico over 2004-16, identify its sources, and investigate how it was affected by government social policy. We find evidence of only a small decline in inequality...
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Is there a one-size-fits-all approach to inclusive growth? We look at four key case studies across advanced and emerging markets-the Nordics, India, Brazil, and Egypt-to try to answer this question. We highlight qualitatively in these countries the key components of inclusive growth models,...
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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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Absolute poverty has dropped markedly in Bulgaria but income inequality has increased substantially in the aftermath of …
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countries, including how countries balance the primary objective of poverty alleviation against the desire to both manage the … employment incentives over the primary objective of poverty alleviation. Many countries can reduce this trade off by combining …
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Using micro-data from household expenditure surveys, we document the evolution of consumption poverty in the United … poverty has not declined materially since the 1980s and even increased for the young. We then analyze which social and … economic factors help explain the extent of poverty in the U.S. using probit, tobit, and machine learning techniques. Our …
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This paper assesses the effectiveness of policies taken by the Burkinabè authorities to protect the poor from the adverse impact of a combined food and oil price shock in 2008. Estimates of the impact based on household survey data and a price pass-through model suggest that these policies were...
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In Jordan, a system of general food subsidies became untenable in budgetary terms, with a sharp devaluation of the dinar in the late 1980s. A shift from a general subsidy system to limited rations would greatly reduce budgetary costs and minimize adverse effects on the poor. To reduce subsidies,...
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scheme that could serve as a model to alleviate poverty in developed economies in the transitional phase. The proposed scheme … from poverty. The concept of the simplified model is protection against poverty through income maintenance that is …
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