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Can Crop Purchase Programs Reduce Poverty and Improve Welfare in Rural Communities? Evidence from the Food Reserve Agency in Zambia

Fung, Winnie - 2015

The last decade has seen a resurgence of parastatal crop marketing institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, many of which cite improving food security and incomes as key goals. However, there is limited empirical evidence on the welfare effects of these programs. This article considers one such...

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A Comparison of the Poverty Impact of Transfers, Taxes and Market Income Across Five OECD Countries

Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2021

This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries. Since the estimation of that impact can depend on the order in which the various income sources are introduced into the analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates...

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How Tight are Safety-Nets in Nordic Countries? Evidence from Finnish Register Data

Bargain, Olivier - 2007

The non take-up of social assistance benefits due to claim costs may seriously limit the anti-poverty effect of these programs. Yet, available evidence is fragmented and mostly relies on interview-based data, potentially biased by misreporting and measurement errors on both benefit entitlement...

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The Welfare State and Anti-Poverty Policy in Rich Countries

Marx, Ive - 2014

implications for strategies aimed at combining economic growth and employment with making serious inroads into poverty. We conclude …

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A Survey of the Role of Fiscal Policy in Addressing Income Inequality, Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth

Heshmati, Almas - 2014

growth. Developed countries have experienced the critical challenges and trade-off between their generous welfares provisions … and economic growth. Developing countries on the other hand, especially countries in Asia are in the process of shifting … their policy direction toward more inclusive growth where most members are transforming themselves from a low-income country …

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Fighting Poverty : Assessing the Effect of Guaranteed Minimum Income Proposals in Québec

Clavet, Nicholas-James - 2013

This paper analyzes the impact of a recent recommendation made by Quebec's Comité consultatif de lutte contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale to guarantee every individual an income equal to 80% of Statistics Canada's Market Basket Measure (MBM). Workers with earnings at least equivalent to...

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Redistribution and Insurance in Welfare States Around the World

Bartels, Charlotte - 2020

Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective, reducing the level of actual redistribution across...

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Making Aid Work : Governance and Decentralization

Epstein, Gil S. - 2015

Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...

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Indirect Effects of an Aid Program : The Case of Progresa and Consumption

Angelucci, Manuela; De Giorgi, Giacomo - 2021

Aid programs in developing countries are likely to affect all households living in the treated areas, both eligible and non-eligible ones. Studies that focus on the treatment effect on the treated may fail to capture important spillover effects. We exploit the unique design of an aid program's...

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Money Can't Buy Love But Can it Buy Peace? Evidence from the EU Programme for Peace and Reconciliation

Brück, Tilman - 2014

In 1998, the Good Friday Agreement concluded a period of violence in Northern Ireland yet the scars of the conflict remained prevalent in the political landscape. Rival communities remained divided, economic performance was poor and intercommunity tensions frequently manifested. In a bid to...

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