Designing Fiscal Redistribution : The Role of Universal and Targeted Transfers /

There is a growing debate on the relative merits of universal and targeted social assistance transfers in achieving income redistribution objectives. While the benefits of targeting are clear, id est, a larger poverty impact for a given transfer budget or lower fiscal cost for a given poverty impact...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coady, David
Other Authors: Le, Nghia-Piotr
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2020.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2020/105
Online Access:Full text available on IMF