Transfers, Social Safety Nets, and Economic Growth /

This paper analyses the role of social safety nets in the form of redistributional transfers and wage subsidies. It is argued that public welfare programs can be viewed as a crime-preventing or disruption-preventing devices because they tend to increase the opportunity cost of engaging in crime or d...

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Главный автор: Sala-i-Martin, Xavier
Формат: Журнал
Язык:English
Опубликовано: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1996.
Серии:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1996/040
Online-ссылка:Full text available on IMF