Assessing the social welfare effects of government transfer programs: Some international comparisons

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This paper offers a new way of assessing government cash transfers using a social welfare function framework. It demonstrates how one can use social welfare functions to measure the efficiency of such program s without requir ing the specif ication of a poverty line or particular poverty measures . The paper introduces three alternative principles of targeting, which provide a basis for measuring program efficiency. By applying the methodology developed in this paper , we compare the targeting efficiencies of 44 countries , which include both middle and high income countries .

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: LIS Working Paper Series ; No. 786

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Model Evaluation, Validation, and Selection ; National Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs ; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs ; Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Development
• Subject: Poverty ; Policy Evaluation ; Social Welfare ; Social Rate of Return ; International Comparison

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Kakwani, Nanak ; Wang, Xiaobing ; Xu, Jing ; Yue, Ximing
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)
• (where): Luxembourg
• (when): 2020

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/228338
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET