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Fostering food purchase programmes in widespread poverty contexts: Targeting smallholders within the PAA Africa Programme in Niger
de Miranda, Rosana Pereira; Diop, Amadou; Klug, Israel - 2017
Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Index (FAO 2015). Its main economic activity is agriculture, including …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012030413
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Fostering food purchase programmes in widespread poverty contexts : targeting smallholders within the PAA Africa Programme in Niger
Miranda, Rosana Pereira de; Diop, Amadou; Klug, Israel - 2017
Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Index (FAO 2015). Its main economic activity is agriculture, including …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011690518
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From social safety net to social policy? The role of conditional cash transfers in welfare state development in Latin America
Bastagli, Francesca - 2009
During the 1990s, conditional cash transfers (CCTs) were adopted by countries across Latin America as central elements of their poverty reduction strategies. Alongside other developments in the area of social assistance, CCTs represent an opportunity for countries to develop an integrated and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293307
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Optimal commodity taxation and redistribution within households
Bargain, Olivier; Donni, Olivier - 2011
Using a collective model of consumption, we characterize optimal commodity taxes aimed at targeting speci…c …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293655
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Domestic labor, foreign capital and national welfare
Broll, Udo; Hansen, Sabine; Marjit, Sugata - 2004
The competitive allocation of labor across different sectors of an economy may not be socially optimal when one sector uses foreign capital. We argue that a suitably designed government intervention is required to restrict the sectors to their optimal size and maximize national welfare. Such a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296787
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Social Policy Targeting and Binary Information Transfer between Surveys
Gottlieb, Daniel; Kushnir, Leonid - 2009
-orthodox population in Israel serves as a case study. This idiosyncratic community, committed to the observance of the Bible is only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298600
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Social policy targeting and binary information transfer between surveys
Gottlieb, Daniel; Kushnir, Leonid - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 3 (2009) 2009-30, pp. 1-16
-orthodox population in Israel serves as a case study. This idiosyncratic community, committed to the observance of the Bible is only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298814
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Reforming Social Protection Policy: Responding to the Global Financial Crisis and Beyond
Manasan, Rosario G. - 2009
This study reviews and evaluates the major contributory and noncontributory social protection programs that are … benefits/transfers, cost-effectiveness/efficiency, and financial sustainability. The major findings of the study include: (i … centrally managed targeting system anchored on proxy means test will be cost effective if used for the major targeted programs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421144
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Benefit Incidence of Public Spending on Health in the Philippines
Manasan, Rosario G.; Cuenca, Janet S. - 2010
Directing government subsidies to social services such as health care is expected to bring about positive external/social benefits and improve equity in access to health services. In general, government spending on health is envisioned to improve the well-being of beneficiaries and enhance their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421191
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Conditional Cash Transfer Program in the Philippines: Is It Reaching the Extremely Poor?
Tabuga, Aubrey D.; Reyes, Celia M. - 2012
features of the 4Ps and the reviews or assessments done so far, and to expound the issues surrounding the targeting scheme and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421262