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| dc.title | Policy Options for Poverty Alleviation |
| dc.contributor.author | Székely, Miguel |
| dc.contributor.orgunit | Department of Research and Chief Economist |
| dc.coverage | The Caribbean |
| dc.coverage | Central America |
| dc.coverage | South America |
| dc.date.available | 2011-02-04T00:00:00 |
| dc.date.issue | 1997-03-01T00:00:00 |
| dc.description.abstract | This work builds on previous research to develop a methodology that simplifies the identification of the best policy options for poverty alleviation in a given country. When a population can be divided into subgroups according to an easily identifiable characteristic, the problem of alleviating poverty through a targeted mechanism can be viewed as one of choosing of three options: (i) provoking a marginal change in the average income of certain subgroups; (ii) changing the resource distribution within marginal subgroups; and (iii) generating a marginal change in the differences between the subgroups. Recent data from Mexico is applied. Note: This paper is published as Chapter 6 in Székely, M. "The Economics of Poverty, Inequality and Wealth Accumulation in Mexico", MacMillan, London, 1998. |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0010754 |
| dc.identifier.url | https://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Policy-Options-for-Poverty-Alleviation.pdf |
| dc.language.iso | en |
| dc.medium | Adobe PDF |
| dc.publisher | Inter-American Development Bank |
| dc.subject | Poverty |
| dc.subject | Economy |
| dc.subject.keywords | WP-342 |
| dc.type | Working Papers |
| idb.identifier.pubnumber | Working Papers |