Assessing the social welfare effects of government transfer programs

some international comparisons

This paper offers a new way of assessing government cash transfers using a social welfare function framework. It demonstrates how one can use social welfare functions to measure the efficiency of such program s without requir ing the specif ication of a poverty line or particular poverty measures ....

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Main Author:	Kakwani, Nanak
Format:	Publication
Language:	English
Place of publication:	Luxembourg Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), asbl 2020
Data of publication:	2020
Series:	LIS working paper series
Online Access:	available in Bonn?
Database:	ECONIS Database information Databases - DBIS