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The paper provides a comparative analysis of the incidence of evaluation methods in antipoverty transfer programmes in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. The paper identifies two broad explanations for the incidence of evaluation in antipoverty transfer programmes in developing countries, one...
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While land reforms have long been motivated as a potential policy lever of rural growth and development, there is remarkably little evidence of the direct impacts of such reforms. In an effort to fill this lacunae, this paper examines South Africa's Land Redistribution for Agricultural...
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As part of the recent health reform effort, the government of Georgia launched a Medical Assistance Program in June 2006 to provide health insurance to its poor population. So far the program covers slightly over 50 percent of the poor and provides benefit coverage for outpatient and inpatient...
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Who benefits from public spending? Who bears the burden of taxation? How desirable is the distribution of net benefits from the operation of a tax-benefit system? This paper surveys basic concepts, methods, and modeling approaches commonly used to address these issues in the context of fiscal...
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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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United States, OECD-Europe) are more likely to receive international remittances, and that while the level of poverty in a … receive remittances, these resource flows do tend to reduce the level and depth of poverty. At the household level, a review …
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authors assess the impact of policy shocks on poverty by using partial growth elasticities. They perform various policy … growth and poverty reduction in Niger. …
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The importance of distributional issues in policymaking creates a need for empirical tools to assess the social impact of economic shocks and policies. This paper reviews some of the modeling approaches that are currently in use at the World Bank and other international financial institutions....
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Taking price changes from the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model of world trade, the authors use a small open economy computable general equilibrium comparative static model of the Russian economy to assess the impact of global free trade and a successful completion of the Doha Agenda on...
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and policies. The importance of the underlying poverty and distributional issues creates a need for relevant and reliable … framework for simulating the poverty implications of the Dutch disease, a change in the terms of trade and budgetary policy. The … open economy. It is observed that, while aggregate welfare and poverty effects may be negligible, the structural and …
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