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sector jobs. This paper quantifies impacts on income distribution and efficiency of expanding developing countries' social …
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The level of income can be directly inferred from the level of education, making education an important variable as a …
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This paper explores the relationship between a large government cash transfer programme, changes in inequality, and political participation in Mexico. The results show that increases in the coverage of the programme during the 2008 financial crisis resulted in greater individual participation in...
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of fiscal policy on income redistribution, and poverty in South Africa. We find, in accordance with previous research …
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evaluating in an integrated manner the impacts of government-sponsored actions in inequality and mean income changes on social … that allows consistent comparisons among the years 1995, 2003, 2009, and 2015. We focus on disposable income changes … the growth rates associated with both initial income (4.36 per cent) and final income (4.47 per cent), but not with gross …
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sources of disposable income across the income distribution and estimating the contributions of different policy instruments …
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Over the past two decades, research on the impacts of a diverse range of public policies and income inequality has seen … policy interventions might help to reduce income inequality. This paper aims to fill this void by providing a systematic …
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Tanzania has expanded its social protection framework significantly over the past decade, but the country continues to grapple with important gender inequalities. This paper examines, first, the evolution and effects of Tanzania's social protection policies since the 2000s, from the perspective...
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Some claim that certain forms of social protection, conditional cash transfers in particular, result in perverse incentives for recipients in order to stay eligible for receiving benefits. This notion has a bearing on the design of social protection programmes and may undermine the political...
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This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth … deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the outcomes were compared to the incidence of income poverty. The analyses reveal … areas; and differences in regional rankings of deprivation and income poverty. Distinct policies for child deprivation and …
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