This papers quantifies the redistributive effects on progressivity, poverty and welfare, that would occur if the … poverty reducing as the one in force (or more in some dimensions), and a generator of greater welfare. …

used as a meaningful basis for targeting and poverty measurement. … aim to reflect local perceptions of poverty. This paper demonstrates how such a measure can be constructed, using data … from a field experiment on poverty targeting in Indonesia. It then explores the potential impact of using this welfare …

voluntarily supplied public goods; specifically, we show that not only an income inequality-raising redistribution policy but also … allowed, an inequality-raising redistribution policy is no longer effective and leaves social welfare unchanged …

the "poor/non-poor" classification in the first stage. -- Multidimensional welfare ; poverty ; factory analysis ; clusters …

matter to poverty and the dimension that matters to redistribution preferences. The undermining paradox emphasizes that the …Korpi and Palme's (1998) classic "The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality" claims that universal … social policy better reduces poverty than social policies targeted at the poor. This article revisits Korpi and Palme …

a function - typically inequality or poverty indices - of household equivalized income. In parallel, economic research … has made considerable progress in the measurement of welfare along several dimensions. Distinct but related branches of … the literature have attempted (i) to model different behaviour (in a way that matter for incidence and redistribution of …

voluntarily supplied public goods; specifically, we show that not only an income inequality-raising redistribution policy but also … allowed, an inequality-raising redistribution policy is no longer effective and leaves social welfare unchanged. …