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Microsimulation analysis of the impact of indirect tax benefits on income distribution and poverty alleviation in Tanzania : an application of TAZMOD
Maskaeva, Asiya; Bochkaeva, Zanda; Mmasa, Joel; … - 2019
This paper analyses the impacts of indirect tax policy reforms on income distribution and poverty in Tanzania by … effect on household income distribution and consumption. The findings show that, despite increasing unequal income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986913
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Are there different spillover effects from cash transfers to men and women? : impacts on investments in education in post-war Uganda
Calderone, Margherita - 2017
This paper looks at the spillover effects of grants under the Youth Opportunities Programme (YOP) on human capital investments in conflict-affected Northern Uganda. The YOP grant was primarily aimed at providing start-up money to groups of underemployed young people, and in practice worked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635702
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The impact of conditional cash transfer programmes on household work decisions in Ghana
Ekobor-Ackah Mochiah, Eric; Osei, Robert Darko; … - 2014
A cash transfer programme 'Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty' has been implemented with the aim of addressing poverty and vulnerability in Ghana. This study looks at the impact of this conditional cash transfer programme on households' supply of labour for agriculture, paid employment, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010406840
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Financing the Zambia social cash transfer scale-up : a tax benefit microsimulation analysis based on MicroZAMOD
Kampamba, Remmy; Pellerano, Luca; Banda, Charles; … - 2019
This paper assesses the effects on poverty and inequality of the alternative targeting approaches that Zambia's Social Cash Transfer programme could take as its expansion continues during the period of the country's Seventh National Development Plan (2017-21). It further assesses the domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986983
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Poverty dynamics and programme graduation from social protection : a transitional model for Mexico's Oportunidades programme
Villa, Juan M.; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2014
Social protection programmes have emerged as one of the most important anti-poverty policy strategies in developing countries. Their effects on poverty and well-being have been widely studied. Yet, there is limited knowledge on how a transfer programme should respond to the dynamics of poverty....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010400642
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Voter coercion and pro-poor redistribution in rural Mexico
Filipovich, Dragan; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Santillán … - 2021
Voter coercion is a recurrent threat to pro-poor redistribution in young democracies. In this study we focus on Mexico's paradigmatic Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera (POP) programme. We investigate whether local mayors exploited POP to coerce voters, and if so, what effect these actions had on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012608489
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Institutionalizing segregation : conditional cash transfers and employment choices
Palacio, María Gabriela - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517300
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Welfare and redistributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2019
This paper presents an analysis of the recent evolution of social assistance in the developing world, looking at its complex typological configuration, which has interlinked with, and partly reflects the complex demographic and epidemiological transitions and rapid urbanization and economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012124448
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Winning or buying hearts and minds? : cash transfers and political attitudes in Pakistan
Ghorpade, Yashodhan; Justino, Patricia - 2019
This paper studies how household-level receipts of cash transfers affect political attitudes in Pakistan. The paper exploits the locally exogenous eligibility cut-off of the flagship Benazir Income Support Programme to estimate causal effects. The main results show evidence of improved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129354
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The global consumption and income project : an introduction and preliminary findings
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2015
We introduce two separate datasets - the Global Consumption Dataset and the Global Income Dataset - containing an … unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark … version of the dataset presents estimates in purchasing power parity units of monthly real consumption and income for every …
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