This paper assesses the performance of government spending on social protection programs in reducing poverty and inequality in Lesotho, applying benefit incidence and microsimulation methods to 2017-2018 household survey data. The paper investigates the distributional effects of actual spending on social protection programs as well as those of a hypothetical alternative in which the spending is targeted through a proxy means test (PMT) formula used...
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2021/02/16
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工作文件（编号系列）
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155978
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2021/03/03
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Disclosed
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Welfare, Shocks, and Government Spending on Social Protection Programs in Lesotho
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social protection program