We evaluate the costs of three different programs for alleviating long term poverty: (i) workfare, or grants made … compare them with the corresponding conditions for short term poverty alleviation. We find that the arguments for using work … requirements are both strenghtened and weakened with long term poverty. We also find that as the fraction of really needy persons …

Work requirements can make it easier to screen the poor from the non-poor. They can also affect future poverty by … changing the poors' incentive to invest in their income capacity. The novelty of our study is the focus on long term poverty. …

We evaluate the costs of three different programs for alleviating long term poverty: (i) workfare, or grants made … compare them with the corresponding conditions for short term poverty alleviation. …