| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w24665 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 24665 |
| Social Protection and Economic Development: Are the Poorest Being Lifted-Up or Left-Behind? | |
| Martin Ravallion; Dean Jolliffe; Juan Margitic | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-06-04 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Standard measures of poverty may reveal nothing about whether the poorest of the poor are being lifted-up or left-behind, yet this is a widespread concern among policy makers and citizens. The paper assesses whether public spending on social protection benefits the poorest and hence lifts the floor, and what role economic development plays. Evidence is presented for the developing world and the US. Across developing countries, a higher mean income comes with a higher floor. The bulk of this income effect is direct rather than via higher spending on social protection. That spending generally lifts the floor though this is mainly due to social insurance; on average, social assistance adds only 1.5 cents per day to the floor. Turning to the US, the paper finds that the floor has been sinking over the last 30 years, associated with an inequitable growth process. Food stamp spending partially compensates the poorest, and helped stabilize the floor in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. The poorest in the US gain more from food stamps than average spending on food stamps, though the program’s impact on the floor per $ spent has fallen over time. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Development and Growth ; Development |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w24665 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/582338 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Martin Ravallion,Dean Jolliffe,Juan Margitic. Social Protection and Economic Development: Are the Poorest Being Lifted-Up or Left-Behind?. 2018. |
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| w24665.pdf（519KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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