average share of household income from welfare transfers), low-income targeting, and universalism - and poverty and … social policy better reduces poverty than social policies targeted at the poor. This article revisits Korpi and Palme … equality. Specifically, we investigate the relationships between three dimensions of welfare transfers - transfer share (the …

. The paper underscores the principles of the poverty focus of social assistance and presents an overview of existence … evidence of first- and second-order effects of social assistance, particularly in the domains of poverty, education, health and … labour markets. Moreover, the paper highlights the knowledge gaps with regard to the longer-term and gender-specific welfare …

We contribute to the literature on trends in living standards in Tanzania by analysing child welfare using two multi … in the middle. The methodologies also complement each other by providing upper and lower bounds on underlying welfare …