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Do public program benefits crowd out private transfers in developing countries? : a critical review of recent evidence

Nikolov, Plamen; Bonci, Matthew - 2020

Precipitated by rapid globalization, rising inequality, population growth, and longevity gains, social protection programs have been on the rise in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the last three decades. However, the introduction of public benefits could displace informal mechanisms...

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Do public program benefits crowd out private transfers in developing countries? : a critical review of recent evidence

Nikolov, Plamen; Bonci, Matthew - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 134 (2020), pp. 1-16

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Social Security and Growth in an Altruistic Economy

Wigger, Berthold U. - 2004

This paper studies the macroeconomic impact of private and public intergenerational transfers in the presence of endogenous growth. It focuses on two-sided altruism implying that individuals have both a motive to make gifts to their parents and a motive to leave bequests to their children. The...

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Private transfers, public transfers, and food insecurity during the time of COVID-19 : evidence from Bangladesh

Ahmed, Akhter U.; Mohammed Mehrab Bin Bakhtiar; … - In: Applied economic perspectives and policy 45 (2023) 4, pp. 1901-1921

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De-facto gaps in social protection for standard and non-standard workers : an approach for monitoring the accessibility and levels of income support

Immervoll, Herwig; Fernández, Rodrigo; Hyee, Raphaela; … - 2022

Social protection systems play a key stabilising role for individuals and societies, especially in the recent context of heightened uncertainties. Income stabilisation and related social policy objectives hinge on the extent to which social protection is accessible for those requiring support....

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Decentralization and intra-country transfers in the Great Recession : the case of the European Union

Goodspeed, Timothy J. - In: Regional studies : official journal of the Regional … 54 (2020) 7, pp. 931-941

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Worker retraining and transfer payments : the political economy of social protection

Jain, Sanjay - 2017

redistribution and retraining - that arguably characterize many reform packages. We analyse the interaction of compensatory … redistribution and retraining programmes, and demonstrate that the provision of redistributive programmes might distort incentives …. Conversely, it may be possible for an economic reform to win political support in the absence of compensatory redistribution …

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The impact of pensions, transfers and taxes on child poverty in Europe : the role of size, pro-poorness and child orientation

Diris, Ron; Vandenbroucke, Frank; Verbist, Gerlinde - In: Socio-economic review 15 (2017) 4, pp. 745-775

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Welfare and redistributive effects of social assistance in the Global South

Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2019

This paper presents an analysis of the recent evolution of social assistance in the developing world, looking at its complex typological configuration, which has interlinked with, and partly reflects the complex demographic and epidemiological transitions and rapid urbanization and economic...

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The economics of social protection

Pestieau, Pierre - 2023

The objective of this Element is to provide an analysis of social protection from an economic perspective. It relies on tools and methods widely used in public and insurance economics and comprises four main section besides the introduction. The first section is devoted to the design of social...

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