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This paper analyzes the impact of tax and transfers on income distribution. We use a simple Computable General Equilibrium model for Pakistan (CGEP) adapted from Lofgren et al. (2001). Our CGE model takes into account the market interactions, that is, the effects of pricing outcomes of one...
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Cash transfer programs may generate significant general equilibrium effects that can detract from the anti-poverty …
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to address the many facets of poverty. The 4Ps is by far the largest poverty reduction and social development program the … to alleviate their immediate needs and aims to "break the intergenerational poverty cycle through investments in human …
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-economic shocks, traumatizes CCT families, erodes social cohesion, and pushes them further into poverty. We conclude with …
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The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program has been much maligned and dismissed as a "dole-out" program. Critics have focused on the fact that it provides cash grants directly to poor families, believing it would promote the culture of mendicancy and dependence. Others believe that the grants would...
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The Philippine government shows its serious effort to combat poverty through the continuing expansion of the Pantawid … Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), the Philippines` version of the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program modeled by Latin … American countries. The 4Ps by far is the most comprehensive and also controversial poverty reduction program of the Philippine …
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