Format:
1 online resource (272 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781107039025
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9781107420861
Content:
This book provides the first comprehensive account of the global growth of social assistance transfers in developing countries. It explains the emergence of programmes such as Brazil's Bolsa Família, India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and South Africa's Child Support Grant, and examines their potential to address global poverty
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Part I Introduction -- 1 The emergence of social assistance in developing countries -- What is new? -- Why social assistance? -- Why now? -- What to expect from anti-poverty transfers? -- The end game: institution building and poverty eradication -- Breaking new ground -- Structure of the book -- Part II Foundations -- 2 Ethical foundations -- Justifications for assisting those in poverty -- Individual morality and assistance -- Assistance within a political conception of justice -- The value and limits of assistance -- Priority -- Sufficiency -- Sufficiency and priority -- The ethical foundations of assisting those in poverty -- 3 Poverty concepts and measures for social assistance -- What is poverty? -- Measuring poverty: how much poverty is inches..? -- Well-being indicators and thresholds -- Identification and aggregation -- Commonly used poverty indexes -- The Foster-Greer-Thorbecke measure -- The Watts measure -- The Sen measure -- Multidimensional indexes -- Axioms and dominance -- Poverty dynamics and vulnerability -- Global poverty? -- Conclusions -- Additional Notes A3 -- A3.1 Equivalence scales -- A3.2 Poverty functions -- A3.3 Relational poverty measures -- A3.4 Dominance -- A3.5 Selected poverty measure axioms -- A3.6 Duration poverty measures -- 4 Optimal anti-poverty transfers -- Optimal allocation of a limited anti-poverty budget -- Income maintenance transfers -- Taxpayers' preferences and government anti-poverty policy -- A basic income maintenance programme -- Classification -- Productive capacity -- Work incentives -- Generosity -- Welfarist approaches to optimal transfers -- Conclusions -- Part III Practice -- 5 Anti-poverty transfers in practice -- Social assistance in developed and developing countries
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Typology of anti-poverty transfer programmes in developing countries -- Programme objectives -- Beneficiary selection -- Transfer modalities -- Co-responsibility and conditions -- Duration and exit -- Conclusions -- 6 Incidence, implementation and impact -- Incidence -- Measuring errors in selection -- A process approach -- Implementation -- Vertical and horizontal coordination -- Information -- Impact -- Impact on poverty -- Impact on consumption -- Impact on productive capacity -- Long-term effects of transfers? -- Labour supply effects -- Conclusions -- Additional Notes A6 -- A6.1 Measures of incidence -- A6.2 Difference-in-difference measures of impact -- 7 Budgets, finance and politics -- Social assistance budgets -- Social assistance expenditure in developing countries -- Needs assessments of social assistance expenditure -- Financing anti-poverty transfers -- The revenue mobilisation approach and its drawbacks -- Financing mix and trends -- The financing mix and social assistance -- Incentives -- Legitimacy -- Conclusions -- Part IV Conclusion -- 8 The future of social assistance in developing countries -- Main challenges ahead -- Evolution of social assistance -- Poverty research and social assistance -- Evolution in programme design -- Primacy of national governments -- Linking taxes and transfers -- Social contracts -- Ten findings -- References -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Barrientos, Armando Social Assistance in Developing Countries New York : Cambridge University Press,c2013 ISBN 9781107039025
Language:
English
Keywords:
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