Research Catalog

Title

Public spending and the poor : theory and evidence / edited by Dominique van de Walle, Kimberly Nead.

Publication

Baltimore, MD ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

• Nead, Kimberly, 1960-
• Van de Walle, Dominique.
• World Bank. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79043403

Description

xviii, 619 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subjects

• Expenditures, Public
• Transfer payments
• Income
• Economics
• Government spending policy
• Government
• Welfare economics
• Economic assistance, Domestic
• Income distribution
• Social Welfare

Note

• "Published for the World Bank."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Foreword / Lyn Squire -- 1. Introduction / Dominique van de Walle -- 2. The Political Economy of Targeting / Amartya Sen -- 3. On Targeting Social Security: Theory and Western Experience with Family Benefits / Anthony B. Atkinson -- 4. Measuring the Distributional Impact of Public Goods / Richard Cornes -- 5. Labor Supply and Targeting in Poverty-Alleviation Programs / Ravi Kanbur, Michael Keen and Matti Tuomala -- 6. The Determinants and Consequences of the Placement of Government Programs in Indonesia / Mark M. Pitt, Mark R. Rosenzweig and Donna M. Gibbons -- 7. Measuring the Distributional Effects of Public Education in Peru / Thomas M. Selden and Michael J. Wasylenko -- 8. Public Schooling Expenditures in Rural Pakistan: Efficiently Targeting Girls and a Lagging Region / Harold Alderman, Jere R. Behrman, Shahrukh Khan, David R. Ross and Richard Sabot -- 9. The Distribution of Subsidies through Public Health Services in Indonesia, 1978-87 / Dominique van de Walle --
• 10. Government Health Spending in Indonesia: Impacts on Children in Different Economic Groups / Anil B. Deolalikar -- 11. The Targeting of Family Allowances in Hungary / Sarah J. Jarvis and John Micklewright -- 12. Private Transfers and the Effectiveness of Public Income Redistribution in the Philippines / Donald Cox and Emmanuel Jimenez -- 13. Two Errors of Targeting / Giovanni Andrea Cornia and Frances Stewart -- 14. Incentive Effects on Labor Supply of Sri Lanka's Rice Subsidy / David E. Sahn and Harold Alderman -- 15. Is Targeting through a Work Requirement Efficient? Some Evidence for Rural India / Martin Ravallion and Gaurav Datt -- 16. Toward Quantifying the Trade-off: Administrative Costs and Incidence in Targeted Programs in Latin America / Margaret E. Grosh -- 17. The Distributional Impact of Cash and In-Kind Transfers in Eastern Europe and Russia / Branko Milanovic --
• 18. Distributional Effects of Social Sector Expenditures in Malaysia, 1974 to 1989 / Jeffrey S. Hammer, Ijaz Nabi and James Cercone -- 19. On Gender Targeting of Public Transfers / Simon Appleton and Paul Collier -- 20. Incidence and Targeting: An Overview of Implications for Research and Policy / Dominique van de Walle.

ISBN

0801852552

LCCN

95043787

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries