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Social Assistance and Poverty Reduction in Moldova, 2001-2004 : An Impact Evaluation

Verme, Paolo - 2008

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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The Poverty Impacts of the Doha Round in Cameroon : The Role of Tax Policy

Emini, Christian Arnault; Cockburn, John; Decaluwe, Bernard - 2005

The aim of this paper is to assess the possible impacts of the Doha Round of negotiations on poverty in Cameroon …. During the recent period of economic recovery, Cameroon has enjoyed a sharp decline in poverty with the headcount index … model which involves 10,992 households in order to address this question. The Doha Round is found to be poverty reducing for …

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Tracking Poverty Over Time in the Absence of Comparable Consumption Data

Stifel, David C. - 2014

poverty regularly. This paper develops an economically intuitive and inexpensive methodology to do so in the absence of …

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Performance of Social Safety Net Programs in Uttar Pradesh

Ajwad, Mohamed Ihsan - 2012

Ajwad assesses the effectiveness of core social protection programs in Uttar Pradesh using the following criteria: i) coverage, ii) targeting efficiency; and iii) adequacy and potential impact on household welfare. The study is largely a quantitative assessment. Five main findings emerge from...

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Estimating Household Responses to Trade Reforms : Net Consumers and Net Producers in Rural Mexico

Porto, Guido G. - 2005

This paper explores an empirical methodology to assess the impacts of trade reforms on household behavior in developing countries. I focus on consumption and income responses: when price reforms take place, households modify consumption and production decisions and local labor markets adjust....

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Distributional Effects of Crises : The Financial Channel

Halac, Marina C. - 2011

Financial crises affect income distribution via different channels. This paper argues that there is an important channel overlooked by the literature, namely the financial channel. We study how this channel operates by analyzing data from several Latin American countries, including Argentina,...

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Fiscal Federalism in Bosnia-Herzegovina : The Dayton Challenge

Johnson, Noel D. - 2017

The authors describe Bosnia's current arrangements in fiscal federalism, outline the unique challenges that the Dayton system proposed, and draw lessons for the design of fiscal federal systems in ethnically diverse economies. Traditional economic models of federalism suggest a government...

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