Budgetary Rules for Poverty Alleviation

Seminar Paper / Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University,0347-8769 ;363

Published in connection with a visit at the IIES.
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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