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Protecting who? : optimal social protection responses to shocks with limited information
Hernandez, Carlos Gustavo Ospino; Rigolini, Jamele; … - 2023
The literature on shock-responsive social protection focuses on operational features that improve the speed and reach of the response, but little is known about the optimal design of emergency social protection responses in terms of which programs to use, information about the people affected,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014429151
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Should Cash Transfers Be Confined to the Poor? Implications for Poverty and Inequality in Latin America
Acosta, Pablo A.; Leite, Phillippe; Rigolini, Jamele - 2011
choosing carefully categories of beneficiaries is almost as important as targeting the poor for achieving a high poverty and … inequality impact. Overall, the findings suggest that although in the Latin American context poverty targeting tends to deliver … higher poverty impacts, there are circumstances under which categorical targeting confined to geographical regions (sometimes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331388
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Should cash transfers be confined to the poor? : implications for poverty and inequality in Latin America
Acosta, Pablo; Leite, Phillippe G.; Rigolini, Jamele - 2011
choosing carefully categories of beneficiaries is almost as important as targeting the poor for achieving a high poverty and … inequality impact. Overall, the findings suggest that although in the Latin American context poverty targeting tends to deliver … higher poverty impacts, there are circumstances under which categorical targeting confined to geographical regions (sometimes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009383544
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Should Cash Transfers Be Confined to the Poor? Implications for Poverty and Inequality in Latin America
Acosta, Pablo A.; Leite, Phillippe; Rigolini, Jamele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
choosing carefully categories of beneficiaries is almost as important as targeting the poor for achieving a high poverty and … inequality impact. Overall, the findings suggest that although in the Latin American context poverty targeting tends to deliver … higher poverty impacts, there are circumstances under which categorical targeting confined to geographical regions (sometimes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371860
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Targeted Programs in an Economic Crisis: Empirical Findings from Indonesia’s Experience.
Pritchett, Lant; Sumarto, Sudarno; Suryahadi, Asep - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
sectional and panel data to examine the targeting of these programs. First, “static participation incidence” (the relationship … substantially worse than perfect targeting --and remarkably similar for all of the JPS programs. Second, unlike standard static … on self-selection targeting was much more likely to reach those households with large shocks to their expenditures than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111298
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Optimal Universal and Categorical Benefits with Classification Errors and Imperfect Enforcement
Slack, Sean; Ulph, David - School of Economics and Finance, University of St. Andrews - 2014
We determine the optimal combination of a universal benefit, ????, and categorical benefit, ????, for an economy in which individuals differ in both their ability to work – modelled as an exogenous zero quantity constraint on labour supply – and, conditional on being able to work, their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010937856
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Welfare state adjustment to new social risks in the post-crisis scenario : a review with focus on the social investment perspective
Leoni, Thomas - 2015
The European welfare states have undergone a significant amount of change over the last decades. In light of the unresolved tensions resulting from changed macroeconomic conditions, the emergence of new social risks as well as from the consequences of the Great Recession and its aftershocks,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337648
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Poverty, Demographic Characteristics, and Public Policy in CIS Countries
Ahmad, S. Ehtisham - 2006
The demographic characteristics of different regions in the former Soviet Union influence the nature of poverty in the newly successor independent states of the FSU. Despite a common policy inheritance, major adjustments are needed in the major social protection instruments to reflect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012781796
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The Case of Mexico's 1995 Peso Crisis and Argentina's 2002 Convertibility Crisis
Pereznieto, Paola - UNICEF,Division of Policy and Practice - 2010
A series of economic and transformational crises in Latin America during the 1990s and the early 2000s pushed many households into poverty. In this paper we look at the two most significant of those crises that took place in Mexico and Argentina and explore the policy measures that were put in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010901979
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Austerity Measures Threaten Children and Poor Households: Recent Evidence in Public Expenditures from 128 Developing Countries
Ortiz, Isabel; Cummins, Matthew - UNICEF,Division of Policy and Practice - 2011
In the wake of the food, fuel and financial shocks, a fourth wave of the global economic crisis began to sweep across developing countries in 2010: fiscal austerity. Serving as an update of earlier research by UNICEF, this working paper: (i) examines the latest IMF government spending...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278262