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Should Cash Transfers Be Confined to the Poor? Implications for Poverty and Inequality in Latin America
Acosta, Pablo A.; Leite, Phillippe; Rigolini, Jamele - 2011
This paper compares for 13 Latin American countries the poverty and inequality impacts of cash transfer programs that … to the poor within each population group (that is, poverty targeted transfers). The analysis finds that both the … incidence of poverty and the depth of the poverty gap are important factors affecting the relative effectiveness of categorical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331388
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Social Policies for a Recovery
Immervoll, Herwig; Llena-Nozal, Ana - 2011
The fallout from the global economic downturn of 2008-09 is a continuing source of stress on families and a constraint on government policies. How can social policies contribute to a quick and equitable recovery from the crisis and how can they best respond to the difficulties that households...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331437
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The Growth of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean: Did They Go Too Far?
Stampini, Marco; Tornarolli, Leopoldo - 2012
reduce current poverty while developing the human capital of the next generation, in the attempt to break the … intergenerational transmission of poverty. Pioneered in Brazil and Mexico in the late 1990s, by 2011 CCTs had spread to 18 countries in … data to document (i) the evolution of CCTs and poverty in LAC, (ii) the relationship between expanded coverage and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331378
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Social Protection as an Automatic Stabilizer
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2010
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of social protection systems in Europe and the US to provide (income) insurance against macro level shocks in terms of automatic stabilizers. We find that automatic stabilizers absorb 38% of a proportional income shock and 47% of an idiosyncratic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331444
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A Good Time for Making Work Pay? Taking Stock of In-Work Benefits and Related Measures across the OECD
Immervoll, Herwig; Pearson, Mark - 2009
The twin problem of in-work poverty and persistent labour market difficulties of low-skilled individuals has been one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331402