-targeting transfers to poor people. This incentive argument does not imply, however, that workfare is more cost-effective against poverty … that for the same budget, workfare has less impact on poverty than either a basic-income scheme (providing the same … transfer to all) or uniform transfers based on the government's below-poverty-line ration cards. For workfare to dominate other …

average gains but would also worsen the distribution. This paper - a product of Poverty and Human Resources, Development … Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to improve methods for evaluating the poverty impact of Bank …

program did partially compensate many losers from the crisis and reduced extreme poverty.This paper is a product of the … Poverty Team, Development Research Group. The work reported is part of the ex-post evaluation of the World Bank's Social …