Levels and Targeting of Social Benefits in Global Perspective: Combatting Poverty through Social Policy

Tommy Ferrarini (), Kenneth Nelson () and Joakim Palme ()

No 647, LIS Working papers from LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

Abstract: This study investigates an old question that has re-emerged in social policy-making and in analyses of global social development: to what extent does targeting and size of social transfers matter for poverty? Using multilevel logistic regression and LIS income data for 40 middle- and high-income countries, we show that the size of transfer income has greater explanatory value for cross-country differences in poverty than the degree of targeting of transfer income. The results are remarkably robust in terms of estimated individual-level and country-level compositional and confounding factors.

Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2015-09
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Published in Global Social Policy 16, no. 1 (2016): 22-46

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