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The prospects and politics of social protection reform in Zambia
Kuss, Maria Klara - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309975
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Financing the Zambia social cash transfer scale-up : a tax benefit microsimulation analysis based on MicroZAMOD
Kampamba, Remmy; Pellerano, Luca; Banda, Charles; … - 2019
This paper assesses the effects on poverty and inequality of the alternative targeting approaches that Zambia's Social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986983
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Assessing the social welfare effects of government transfer programs : some international comparisons
Kakwani, Nanak; Wang, Xiaobing; Xu, Jing; Yue, Ximing - 2020
This paper offers a new way of assessing government cash transfers using a social welfare function framework. It demonstrates how one can use social welfare functions to measure the efficiency of such program s without requir ing the specif ication of a poverty line or particular poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227807
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Long-term effects of PROSPERA on welfare
Aguilar Esteva, Arturo Alberto; Barnard, Cristina; De … - 2019
The long-term effects of Mexico's conditional cash transfer program, PROSPERA, on poor households are of great interest to policy makers and academics alike. This paper analyzes the long-term effects on the welfare of the original participant households and their offspring, about 20 years after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114351
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Integration of administrative records for social protection policies : contributions from the Brazilian experience
Bartholo, Letícia; Mostafa, Joana; Osorio, Rafael Guerreiro - 2018
Integrating information for the purpose of articulating social protection policies is hard work. It requires a combination of political will, capacity for institutional cooperation, software development and direct communication channels with citizens. Because of this complexity, countries that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011893076
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Supporting Women's Livelihoods at Scale : Evidence from a Nationwide Multi-Faceted Program
Botea, Ioana; Brudevold-Newman, Andrew; Goldstein, Markus P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
the government of Zambia yielded consumption and earnings increases comparable to graduation programs, without negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337857
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Are cash transfers a silver bullet? : evidence from the Zambian child grant
Handa, Sudhanshu; Seidenfeld, David; Davis, Benjamin; … - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010415380
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Towards greater poverty reduction in Zambia : simulating potential Cash Plus reforms using MicroZAMOD
Gasior, Katrin; McLennan, David; Kalikeka, Mbewe; … - 2021
A large share of the population in Zambia is living below the national poverty line. To reduce poverty, in 2019, the … MicroZAMOD to analyse the coverage and poverty impact of the current social protection system and to assess the extent to which … household composition. In theory, the Cash Plus reform offers the potential to achieve a greater poverty impact through multiple …
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Agents, coercive learning, and social protection policy diffusion in Africa
Devereux, Stephen; Wolkenhauer, Anna - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013192019
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Can unconditional cash transfers lead to sustainable poverty reduction? : evidence from two government-led programmes in Zambia
Handa, Sudhanshu; Natali, Luisa; Seidenfeld, David; … - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603965