This paper reviews the literature on the performance of commonly found socialsafety net programs in developing countries. The evidence suggests that universal foodsubsidies have very limited potential for redistributing income. While targeted foodsubsidies have greater potential, this can only...

We set out a general equilibrium model for the evaluation of a domesticallyfinanced transfer program, which helps to combine the results from a computable generalequilibrium model with disaggregated household data. We separate the indirect welfareimpact into three components: (1) the...