Arbeitspapier

Anti-poverty transfers without riots in Tunisia

We draw some lessons from the Tunisian experience of social reforms and associated civil conflict. Our main interest is the riots that occurred after subsidy cuts and their possible substitution of price subsidies by direct cash transfers. We propose new welfare indicators apt to assess policy reforms in situations of fragile states. Finally, using micro level data we show that the plausible policy decision depend on parameters describing the balance between poverty and program exclusion risk. In the Tunisian case, only a much larger weight put on poverty relatively to exclusion could bring the decision maker to substitute the in force price subsidies with direct cash transfers, for fear of social unrest.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CREDIT Research Paper ; No. 07/06

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
National Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
Thema
Poverty
Social conflicts
Tunisia
Targeting
Social transfers
Sozialhilfe
Sozialer Konflikt
Armut
Schätzung
Tunesien

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Muller, Christophe
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The University of Nottingham, Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade (CREDIT)
(wo)
Nottingham
(wann)
2007

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Muller, Christophe
  • The University of Nottingham, Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade (CREDIT)

Entstanden

  • 2007

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