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Financing the Zambia social cash transfer scale-up : a tax benefit microsimulation analysis based on MicroZAMOD
Kampamba, Remmy; Pellerano, Luca; Banda, Charles; … - 2019
This paper assesses the effects on poverty and inequality of the alternative targeting approaches that Zambia's Social …
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How inclusive are the local economic impacts of social protection in Uganda?
Kuss, Maria Klara; Gassmann, Franziska; Mugumya, Firminus - In: The European journal of development research 34 (2022) 5, pp. 2156-2178
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Assessing the social welfare effects of government transfer programs : some international comparisons
Kakwani, Nanak; Wang, Xiaobing; Xu, Jing; Yue, Ximing - 2020
This paper offers a new way of assessing government cash transfers using a social welfare function framework. It demonstrates how one can use social welfare functions to measure the efficiency of such program s without requir ing the specif ication of a poverty line or particular poverty...
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Integration of administrative records for social protection policies : contributions from the Brazilian experience
Bartholo, Letícia; Mostafa, Joana; Osorio, Rafael Guerreiro - 2018
Integrating information for the purpose of articulating social protection policies is hard work. It requires a combination of political will, capacity for institutional cooperation, software development and direct communication channels with citizens. Because of this complexity, countries that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011893076
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Towards greater poverty reduction in Zambia : simulating potential Cash Plus reforms using MicroZAMOD
Gasior, Katrin; McLennan, David; Kalikeka, Mbewe; … - 2021
A large share of the population in Zambia is living below the national poverty line. To reduce poverty, in 2019, the … MicroZAMOD to analyse the coverage and poverty impact of the current social protection system and to assess the extent to which … household composition. In theory, the Cash Plus reform offers the potential to achieve a greater poverty impact through multiple …
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Can unconditional cash transfers lead to sustainable poverty reduction? : evidence from two government-led programmes in Zambia
Handa, Sudhanshu; Natali, Luisa; Seidenfeld, David; … - 2016
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Poverty, changing political regimes, and social cash transfers in Zimbabwe, 1980 - 2016
Chinyoka, Isaac - 2017
Since 2000, Zimbabwe has been under some pressure to provide more fully for its children. It is not clear whether child poverty has worsened, although AIDS, drought, and economic mismanagement have all compromised poverty reduction. In any case, child poverty has come under increased scrutiny,...
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Can unconditional cash transfers raise long-term living standards? : evidence from Zambia
Handa, Sudhanshu; Natali, Luisa; Seidenfeld, David; … - In: Journal of development economics 133 (2018), pp. 42-65
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Paradoxes of social policy : welfare transfers, relative poverty, and redistribution preferences
Brady, David; Bostic, Amie - 2015
Korpi and Palme's (1998) classic "The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality" claims that universal social policy better reduces poverty than social policies targeted at the poor. This article revisits Korpi and Palme’s classic, and in the process, explores and informs a set of...
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Toward social welfare : an analysis of programs and proposals attacking poverty, insecurity, and inequality of opportunity
Wilcox, Clair - 1969
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