inequality impact. Overall, the findings suggest that although in the Latin American context poverty targeting tends to deliver …This paper compares for 13 Latin American countries the poverty and inequality impacts of cash transfer programs that … choosing carefully categories of beneficiaries is almost as important as targeting the poor for achieving a high poverty and …

study examines the targeting performance of, and access to, a social welfare scheme for an increasingly vulnerable group … targeting, the difficulty in identifying the poor promotes a universal allocation of benefits. To address this question, this … targeting approach to a random allocation, I show that the benefits of targeting are limited. The reforms aimed at increasing …

This study provides an ex-ante analysis of the welfare effect from the improvement of border road infrastructure in … local prices of imported rice taking into consideration the simulated price changes effect on household welfare across … rural than urban households. Such policies would likely produce larger welfare gains for poorer households than richer …

This study provides an ex-ante analysis of the welfare effect from the improvement of border road infrastructure in … local prices of imported rice taking into consideration the simulated price changes effect on household welfare across … rural than urban households. Such policies would likely produce larger welfare gains for poorer households than richer …

inequality shows that generally the trends in inequality and polarisation are similar. …

-growing population. The importance of access to basic infrastructure services on welfare and the quality of life is clear. Yet the South … compounded by the unequal distribution of existing access for households. This study improves understanding of this inequality by … evaluating access across the region?s physical (location), poverty, and income considerations. The paper also analyzes inequality …