Some Simple Analytics of Poverty Redress through Direct Income Transfers and Wage Employment Programmes: A Review and Commentary

Sreenivasan Subramanian

No RP2004-11, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper is a review and commentary, from both ethical and informational perspectives, of some known results in optimal anti-poverty budgetary rules for two kinds of intervention, direct income transfers and wage employment programmes.

Keywords: Equality and inequality; Government policy (Poor); Poverty measurement; Unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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