Some Simple Analytics of Poverty Redress through Direct Income Transfers and Wage Employment Programmes A Review and Commentary
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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.
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تاریخ انتشار 2004