Holdings: Targeted Transfers in Poor Countries : Revisiting Trade-Offs and Policy Options

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Targeted Transfers in Poor Countries : Revisiting Trade-Offs and Policy Options

Social safety nets are often seen as short-term palliatives or, worse, wastes of scarce money in developing economies. Critics point to leakages of benefits to non-targeted groups (i.e., the non-poor) or the policies' potential adverse effects...

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Main Author:	Whitehead, Tim
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	CAPITAL ACCUMULATION CHRONIC POVERTY ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES EDUCATION PROGRAMS EXTERNAL TRADE GROWTH RATES HIGH INEQUALITY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME INEQUALITY INFLATION INSURANCE MARGINAL PRODUCT MARKET FAILURES NEGATIVE IMPACT OUTPUT GROWTH PERSONAL SAVINGS POLICY OPTIONS POOR POOR AREAS POOR COUNTRIES POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY TRAPS PRO-POOR PRO-POOR GROWTH PRODUCTIVITY PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC GOODS REDUCING INEQUALITY SAFETY NET SAFETY NET PROGRAMS SAVINGS SOCIAL PROTECTION SOCIAL SAFETY NETS TARGETED SOCIAL SAFETY NETS TARGETED TRANSFERS TARGETING TARGETING MECHANISMS TRANSFER PROGRAMS UNEMPLOYMENT
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/01/6240139/targeted-transfers-poor-countries-revisiting-trade-offs-policy-options http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11815

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/01/6240139/targeted-transfers-poor-countries-revisiting-trade-offs-policy-options
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11815