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This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. Our method is based on estimation …
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-market OECD countries. Fourth, the work disincentives of social transfers are so designed as to shield GDP from much reduction if …
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This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. Our method is based on estimation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008800002
This paper investigates how government transfers affect economic growth. Using meta-analysis techniques, we … systematically review 24 primary studies with 164 estimates that examine the effect of government transfers on economic growth. After … government transfers and growth. This negative growth impact of government transfers also holds for developed countries. Meta …
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This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. Our method is based on observable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005515926
charge of food transfers, in terms of free food aid or food-for-work programs. We find that although targeting is clearly …
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This paper describes the effects of general food subsidies on poverty in Tunisia, as revealed by household survey data for 1990. The analysis indicates that the poorest certainly take advantage of this system, but at the price of considerable leakages to non-poor people and at a sizeable...
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This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. Our method is based on observable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004990409
This paper estimates the effect of income taxation and transfers on labour supply at the extensive margin, i.e., the … transfers. Non-labour income contains the (hypothetical) transfer amount someone gets when out of work, while the wage is … replaced by the difference between net wages and the amount of lost transfers due to taking up a job (gains to work). To …
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perform poorly in terms of identifying poor households in Bolivian data when transfers are targeted narrowly to the poor but …
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