Decentralizing Eligibility for a Federal Antipoverty Program

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Decentralizing Eligibility for a Federal Antipoverty Program

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dc.contributor.author	Ravallion, Martin
dc.date.accessioned	2012-03-30T07:12:37Z
dc.date.available	2012-03-30T07:12:37Z
dc.date.issued	2009-02-28
dc.description.abstract	In theory, the informational advantage of decentralizing the eligibility criteria for a federal antipoverty program could come at a large cost to the program's performance in reaching the poor nationally. Whether this happens in practice depends on the size of the local-income effect on the eligibility cutoffs. China's Di Bao program provides a case study. Poorer municipalities adopt systematically lower thresholds—roughly negating intercity differences in need for the program and generating considerable horizontal inequity, so that poor families in rich cities fare better. The income effect is not strong enough to undermine the program's overall poverty impact; other factors, including incomplete coverage of those eligible, appear to matter more.	en
dc.identifier.citation	World Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/4492
dc.identifier.issn	1564-698X
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/4492
dc.publisher	World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseries	World Bank Economic Review
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
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dc.subject	absolute poverty
dc.subject	community groups
dc.subject	fiscal constraints
dc.subject	household survey
dc.subject	impact on poverty
dc.subject	income
dc.subject	income inequality
dc.subject	lack of information
dc.subject	political influence
dc.subject	poor
dc.subject	poor areas
dc.subject	poor families
dc.subject	poor people
dc.subject	poverty impact
dc.subject	poverty line
dc.subject	public spending
dc.subject	redistributive policies
dc.subject	social policies
dc.subject	social spending
dc.subject	targeting
dc.title	Decentralizing Eligibility for a Federal Antipoverty Program	en
dc.title.alternative	A Case Study for China	en
dc.type	Journal Article	en
dc.type	Article de journal	fr
dc.type	Artículo de revista	es
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okr.doctype	Journal Article
okr.globalpractice	Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management
okr.globalpractice	Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience
okr.globalpractice	Poverty
okr.globalpractice	Health, Nutrition, and Population
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okr.language.supported	en
okr.pagenumber	1
okr.pagenumber	30
okr.pdfurl	wber_23_1_1.pdf	en
okr.peerreview	Academic Peer Review
okr.region.administrative	East Asia and Pacific
okr.region.country	China
okr.topic	Rural Development
okr.topic	Macroeconomics and Economic Growth
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Rural Poverty Reduction
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Inequality
okr.topic	Services and Transfers to Poor
okr.topic	Poverty Monitoring and Analysis
okr.topic	Economic Theory and Research
okr.topic	Health Systems Development and Reform
okr.volume	23
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