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- Kanbur, S.M. Ravi
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Budgetary Rules for Poverty Alleviation
- 1986
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- If direct verficiation of low incomes on a case by case basis is too costly, then to some extent the allocation of a poverty alleviation budget will have to be directed towards broadly defined groups in the population. There is then a leakage of expenditure to those above the poverty line. The object of this paper is to formulate precisely the problem of optimal direction of a poverty alleviation budget towards thesee broadly defined groups, taking into account the leakages involved. using a recently suggested decomposable class of poverty indices the paper shows that the budgetary rules so derived have surprising and intricate features, and simple guidelines on budgetary stance towards a group, such a favoring disproportionately groups with greater poverty, turn out to be misleading.
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