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Social Assistance Receipt and its Importance for Combating Poverty in Urban China
Gustafsson, Björn - 2007
Since the second half of the 1990s economic restructuring in urban China has led to widespread joblessness and income … survey covering large parts of urban China in 2002, we investigate factors affecting receipt and how receipt affects urban … while having been sent to rural China during the Cultural Revolution increases it. For some types of households, receipt of …
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Do government transfers reduce poverty in China? : micro evidence from five regions
Westmore, Ben - 2017
, Guangdong, Henan and Gansu) in 2014 using representative household level data from the China Family Panel Studies survey. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732719
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Anti-poverty transfers and spatial prices in Tunisia
Muller, Christophe (contributor) - 2008
In this paper, we study the role of price correction in estimating the impact of price subsidies and anti-poverty cash transfer schemes on poverty in Tunisia. Three types of price corrections are considered: (a) no corrections; (b) living standards deflated by spatial Laspeyres price indices;...
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A comparison of the poverty impact of transfers, taxes and market income across five OECD countries
Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves - In: Bulletin of economic research 62 (2010) 4, pp. 387-406
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A fresh look at an old question : is pro-poor targeting of cash transfers more effective than universal systems at reducing inequality and poverty?
McKnight, Abigail - 2015
This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty reduction in four EU countries - the UK, Italy, Sweden and France. We use long time series (spanning four decades) to examine trends within countries over time and between...
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Evaluating the performance of means-tested benefits in Bulgaria
Tasseva, Iva Valentinova - 2012
Little is known about the effectiveness of means-tested benefits in Bulgaria. Using individual and household level data, I analyse the performance of two social assistance and two means- tested child benefits. I find that the programmes reach a very small proportion of the households with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009626111
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Evaluating the performance of means-tested benefits in Bulgaria
Tasseva, Iva Valentinova - 2012
Little is known about the effectiveness of means-tested benefits in Bulgaria. Using individual and household level data, I analyse the performance of two social assistance and two means-tested child benefits. I find that the programmes reach a very small proportion of the households with incomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009626137
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Targeting social transfer programmes : comparing design and implementation errors across alternative mechanisms
Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel; Hurrell, Alex; Devereux, Stephen - 2014
Identifying the poorest for selection into social transfer programmes is a major challenge facing programme implementers. An innovative cash transfer programme in northern Kenya trialled three targeting mechanisms to learn lessons about which approach is most effective at minimizing inclusion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010240693
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Can the context mediate macro-policy outcomes? : contextual differences in the returns to Bolsa Familia in Brazil
Jacobi, Nadia von - 2014
Local institutional and structural (meso) factors can play a role in mediating the returns to a macro-social policy. I focus on the Brazilian cash-transfer-programme Bolsa Familia and check how contextual features influence the returns to transfers. Building on Amartya Sen's work, I assess the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010249780
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Some simple analytics of poverty redress through direct income transfers and wage employment programmes : a review and commentary
Subramanian, S. - 2004
This paper is a review and commentary, from both ethical and informational perspectives, of some known results in optimal anti-poverty budgetary rules for two kinds of intervention, direct income transfers and wage employment programmes.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011513949