Assessing the Social Welfare Effects of Government Transfer Programs: Some International Comparisons

Nanak Kakwani, Xiaobing Wang (), Jing Xu and Ximing Yue

No 786, LIS Working papers from LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

Abstract: This paper offers a new way of assessing government cash transfers using a social welfare function framework. It demonstrates how one can use soci al 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.

JEL-codes: C52 H53 I38 O23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2020-04
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Published in The Review of Income and Wealth, 67, no. 4 (2021): 1005-1028. https://doi.org/10.1111/roiw.12500

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