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Long-term effects of PROSPERA on welfare
Aguilar Esteva, Arturo Alberto; Barnard, Cristina; De … - 2019
to policy makers and academics alike. This paper analyzes the long-term effects on the welfare of the original … look into the effects on schooling and health, the analysis focuses on a utilitarian definition of welfare and employs two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114351
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COVID-19, Labor Market Shocks, Poverty in Brazil : A Microsimulation Analysis
Cereda, Fabio - 2020
shocks. The analysis, using a microsimulation model which incorporates subnational shocks from a computable general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012647464
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China's Slowdown and Rebalancing : Potential Growth and Poverty Impacts on Sub-Saharan Africa
Lakatos, Csilla - 2016
This paper explores the economic impacts of two related tracks of China's expected transformation-economic slowdown and rebalancing away from investment toward consumption-and estimates the spillovers for the rest of the world, with a special focus on Sub-Saharan African countries. The paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246203
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Impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty in the Arab Republic of Egypt
Ibarra, Gabriel Lara; Sinha, Nistha; Fayez, Rana; … - 2019
This study assesses the redistributive impact of fiscal policy -- including expenditures and taxation -- in the Arab Republic of Egypt. Using a broadly applied methodology, a fiscal incidence analysis is conducted using survey and government data for fiscal year 2015. Evidence shows that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022288
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Fiscal incidence in Moldova : a commitment to equity analysis
Cojocaru, Alexandru; Matycin, Michail Ja.; Prohnitchi, … - 2019
This paper uses methods developed by the Commitment to Equity Institute and data from the Household Budget Survey to assess the effects of government taxation and social spending on poverty and inequality in Moldova. The paper presents the first detailed distributional analysis of the tax and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114418
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Lives and livelihoods : estimates of the global mortality and poverty effects of the Covid-19 pandemic
Decerf, Benoit; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Mahler, … - 2020
This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … distributional characteristics. Using years of life as a welfare metric yields a single parameter that captures the underlying trade …-off between lives and livelihoods: how many PYs have the same welfare cost as one LY. Taking an agnostic view of this parameter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241367
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Toward successful development policies : insights from research in development economics
Artuc, Erhan; Cull, Robert J.; Dasgupta, Susmita; Jaef, … - 2020
What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the Development Research Group. This paper assembles a set of 13...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228661
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Iraq's universal public distribution system : utilization and impacts during displacement
Phadera, Lokendra; Sharma, Dhiraj; Wai-Poi, Matthew - 2020
are effective in mitigating the loss of welfare induced by forced displacement. This paper examines whether Iraq's Public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229133
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Returns to low-skilled international migration : evidence from the Bangladesh-Malaysia migration lottery program
Mobarak, Mushfiq; Sharif, Iffath A.; Shrestha, Maheshwor - 2020
Many economists believe that the returns to migration are high. However, credible experimental estimates of the benefits of migration are rare, particularly for low-skilled international migrants and their families. This paper studies a natural experiment in Bangladesh, where low-skilled male...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229771
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An optimal rice policy for Sierra Leone : balancing consumer and producer welfare
Graham, Errol George; Tchale, Hardwick; Ndione, Mamadou - 2020
, simulations suggest that an optimal policy path to balance consumer and producer welfare and meet the higher societal objective of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297240