 FEASIBLE UTOPIA: CUTTING POVERTY RATE IN HALF USING BASIC INCOME GRANTS IN REGIONS AND CITIES OF COTE D´IVOIREFrançois Bedia Aka Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies, 2016, vol. 16, issue 2, 87-104 Abstract: Despite the good economic environment and growth performance of African countries, their poverty and inequality rate still high. How to cut poverty rate in half in a short-term perspective is investigated here. A universal basic income grant (BIG) has been found as a tool to reach this objective and we simulate the distributional impact of a BIG in Cote d’Ivoire. How the BIG is financed is also investigated. We analyze the effects of a universal basic income grant on households. The simulations are performed using the Côte d’Ivoire’s 1998 household survey data composed of 4,200 households. The results suggest that the unconditional basic income grant appears as a powerful tool to reduce drastically the overall as well as disaggregated level of poverty incidence, depth and severity, and also inequality, and increase welfare. Keywords: Basic income grant, BIG, Fiscal policy; Poverty; Inequality; Welfare; Simulated, Cote d´Ivoire. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eaa:eerese:v:16:y2016:i:2_7 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article More articles in Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies from Euro-American Association of Economic Development |
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