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Aid and poverty : why does aid not address poverty (much)?
Shepherd, Andrew W.; Bishop, Sylvia - 2013
approach to development, which would give much greater weight to the poorest, in practice languishes at the margins of … development, though where this has been taken up in middle-income countries (e.g., India) donors have stood on the sidelines …
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Reinventing foreign aid for inclusive and sustainable development : a survey
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014
-term poverty; address concerns of burgeoning population growth; train recipient governments on inclusive development; fight …This survey essay reviews over 200 papers in arguing that in order to achieve sustainable and inclusive development … on inequality in foreign aid policy will lead to more sustainable development outcomes. Inter alia: mitigate short …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409158
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What Do Poor Women Want? Public Employment or Cash Transfers? Lessons from Argentina
Tcherneva, Pavlina R. - 2012
The literature on public employment policies such as the job guarantee (JG) and the employer of last resort (ELR) often emphasizes their macroeconomic stabilization effects. But carefully designed and implemented policies like these can also have profound social transformative effects. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111270
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What do poor women want? : public employment or cash transfers? ; lessons from Argentina
Tcherneva, Pavlina R. - 2012
The literature on public employment policies such as the job guarantee (JG) and the employer of last resort (ELR) often emphasizes their macroeconomic stabilization effects. But carefully designed and implemented policies like these can also have profound social transformative effects. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009485786
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Evaluating the performance of means-tested benefits in Bulgaria
Tasseva, Iva Valentinova - 2012
Little is known about the effectiveness of means-tested benefits in Bulgaria. Using individual and household level data, I analyse the performance of two social assistance and two means- tested child benefits. I find that the programmes reach a very small proportion of the households with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009626111
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Evaluating the performance of means-tested benefits in Bulgaria
Tasseva, Iva Valentinova - 2012
Little is known about the effectiveness of means-tested benefits in Bulgaria. Using individual and household level data, I analyse the performance of two social assistance and two means-tested child benefits. I find that the programmes reach a very small proportion of the households with incomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009626137
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In search of a paradox of redistribution analysis of fiscal redistribution in high-income countries
Coady, David P. - 2023
The last decade has seen a sharp increase in interest in the possible existence of a Paradox of Redistribution (PoR) whereby narrow targeting of social transfers aimed at increasing their redistributive (poverty) impact has the perverse effect of increasing poverty over the medium term due to...
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Shooting a moving target : choosing targeting tools for social programs
Beuermann, Diether W.; Hoffmann, Bridget; Stampini, Marco; … - 2024
A key challenge for policymakers is how to design methods to select beneficiaries of social programs when income is volatile and the target population is dynamic. We evaluate a traditional static proxy-means test (PMT) and three policy-relevant alternatives. We use a unique panel dataset of a...
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What is Pro-Poor?
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Wodon, Quentin T. - 2004
absolute or relative. Another issue is whether pro-poor judgements should put relatively more emphasis on the impact of growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014068717
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Unwelcome Benefits : Why Welfare Beneficiaries Reject Government Aid?
Orbach, Barak - 2008
Participation rates in most means-tested welfare programs in the United States are low. Many low-income individuals refrain from using welfare benefits available for them, although their value of such benefits is presumably high. This Article studies the causes of forgone welfare benefits...
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