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Pandemic, Poverty, and Inequality : Evidence from India

Bhalla, Surjit; Bhasin, Karan; Virmani, Arvind - 2022

The paper presents estimates of poverty [extreme poverty PPP$1.9 and PPP$3.2] and consumption inequality in India for each of the years 2004-5 through the pandemic year 2020-21. These estimates include, for the first time, the effect of in-kind food subsides on poverty and inequality. Extreme...

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Micro-Savings & Informal Insurance in Villages : How Financial Deepening Affects Safety Nets of the Poor - A Natural Field Experiment

Flory, Jeffrey - 2015

This paper uses a large natural field experiment to identify the effects of formal savings on interhousehold transfers in villages, and the spillover impacts of service-expansion on de facto ineligibles residing in the same community. Despite widespread interest in microfinance, spillover...

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Cut Off From Caregivers : The Children of Incarcerated Parents in Louisiana

Kirkland, Auriel; Jones, Victor M.; Blackburn, Cheyenne; … - 2021

An estimated 94,000 children in Louisiana have a parent who is behind bars, with devastating effects on children and families. The entire family serves this sentence. Parental incarceration is a growing epidemic. Nationally, one in 28 children experiences parental incarceration today, compared...

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Budget Support Versus Project Aid

Cordella, Tito; Dell'Ariccia, Giovanni - 2021

Should donors who are interested in the effectiveness of developmental programs rely on conditional budget support or on project aid? To answer this question, we present a model in which only a subset of the developmental expenditures can be subject to conditionality. We show that budget support...

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How Does Exposure to Covid-19 Influence Health and Income Inequality Aversion?

Asaria, Miqdad; Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank - 2021

, and Germany, as well as the effect of personal shocks on employment (redundancies, government replacement salary and …

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The Insite Decision and the Case for Supervised Consumption Facilities in Ottawa

Bouclin, Suzanne - 2014

In this analysis of the Supreme Court of Canada's decision to allow a safer supervised consumption facility (SCF) to remain open, we first describe the context in which Insite emerged in Vancouver, British Columbia. We go on to discuss the legal mobilization that led to the Supreme Court...

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Strategy Paper on e-Government Programme for The Gambia

Islam, K M Baharul - 2020

Implementing the African Information Society Initiative (AISI), African Ministers of Planning and Economic Development identified the use of ICTs in central Government and local administration as one of the priority sectors for the entry of Africa into the information era and as a means to...

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The Persistence of Welfare Participation

Andrén, Thomas - 2021

-run effects of receiving social assistance on future household earnings and disposable income. The results show that state … future earnings, we find a strong and persistent effect over the whole observation window, while no such effect could be … is similar for both Swedish-born and foreign-born, even though the negative earnings effect is somewhat larger for the …

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State Dependence in Canadian Welfare Participation

Hansen, Jorgen; Lofstrom, Magnus; Zhang, Xuelin - 2021

This paper analyzes transitions into and out-of Social Assistance in Canada. We estimate a dynamic Probit model, controlling for endogenous initial conditions and unobserved heterogeneity, using longitudinal data extracted from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) for the years...

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Immigrant-Native Differences in Welfare Participation : The Role of Entry and Exit Rates

Lofstrom, Magnus; Hansen, Jorgen - 2021

This paper analyzes differences in welfare transitions between natives and immigrants in Sweden using a large representative panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1991 to 2001. The data contains administrative information on welfare use, country of birth, and time of arrival in Sweden among other...

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