other inefficiencies. This paper proposes an approach through which all transfers to individuals vulnerable to poverty and … possible to propose a new transfer programme based on a universal child benefit and a targeted extreme poverty grant that will … be twice as effective at reducing poverty and inequality as the four existing programmes …

the average poverty gap, and is clawed back from households that continue to receive any or all of their income from … social assistance. The scheme therefore benefits least those households that generally experience the worst poverty. Through …