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Decentralizing Eligibility for a Federal Antipoverty Program

In theory, the informational advantage of decentralizing the eligibility criteria for a federal antipoverty program could come at a large cost to the program's performance in reaching the poor nationally. Whether this happens in practice depends on the size of the local-income effect on the eli...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ravallion, Martin
Published: World Bank 2012
Subjects:
absolute poverty
community groups
fiscal constraints
household survey
impact on poverty
income
income inequality
lack of information
political influence
poor
poor areas
poor families
poor people
poverty impact
poverty line
public spending
redistributive policies
social policies
social spending
targeting
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4492

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http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4492

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