This dissertation takes a welfare perspective to analyze how rural households in developing countries manage risks ex-ante and cope with shocks ex-post. The first part looks at risk-coping strategies and analyzes the socio-economic consequences of AIDS-related mortality in rural sub-Saharan...

Bulgaria's social safety net is not well targeted; too many benefits accrue to better-off households rather than to the poor. Comprehensive reform is needed, focusing on pensions, unemployment benefits, child allowances, and social assistance.Using data from the 1992 Bulgarian household budget...

The proposed paper provides trial estimates for particular indices of household factor income redistribution as a result of the bidirectional intervention of direct taxes and social transfers in Bulgaria for year 2003. Musgrave-Thin, Reynolds-Smolensky, Kakwani and Atkinson-Plotnik indices along...

Bulgaria's economic progress in recent years has been notable. Since 1997, the country has implemented a range of structural reforms alongside substantive fiscal and sectoral reforms. Measures have included the introduction of a currency board to stabilize the lev and more aggressive...