Benchmarking government provision of social safety nets (English)

The question of how much governments should spend on social programs generally, or safety nets in particular, is of great obvious interest to policymakers but is extremely difficult to address empirically. The approach in this paper differs from others by assuming that what governments can potentially do in terms of spending on social programs is given by what governments across the world are actually observed to be doing on average. After first briefly...

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Besley,Timothy John;

Burgess,Robin Stuart L.;

Imran Rasul;
Document Date
2003/08/01
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Working Paper (Numbered Series)
Report Number
27870
Volume No
1
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1
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World,
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Other,
Disclosure Date
2010/07/01
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Benchmarking government provision of social safety nets
Keywords
computable general equilibrium model

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Besley,Timothy John; Burgess,Robin Stuart L.; Imran Rasul.

Benchmarking government provision of social safety nets (English). Social protection discussion paper series ; no. 315 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/389161468765300478

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