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Energy Subsidy Reform in Action : Cash Transfers in the Context of Energy Subsidy Reform - Insights from Recent Experience : Technical Report (英语)

Energy subsidies, which have a long history of use by governments around the world, have been rising in recent years after a brief period of decline. Despite their significant wider costs, subsidies are...

What Are the Benefits of Government Assistance with Household Energy Bills ? Evidence from Ukraine (英语)

In April 2015, the Government of Ukraine abruptly raised the tariffs of natural gas to residential customers, which were previously well below the cost of acquiring gas and delivering it to households...

Concept Environmental and Social Review Summary (ESRS) - Belarus COVID-19 Social Safety Nets Response - P174400 (英语)

Concept Project Information Document (PID) - Belarus COVID-19 Social Safety Nets Response - P174400 (英语)

A Quantitative Evaluation of the Greek Social Solidarity Income (英语)

This note presents the results of the evaluation of the Greek Social Solidarity Income (SSI) program, a last resort safety net program targeted to extremely poor households with the objective of alleviating...

Towards a More Effective and Fiscally Sustainable Public Sector for Ukraine : Second Public Finance Review (英语)

This Second Programmatic Public Finance Review (PFR-2) supports Ukraine in implementing its ongoing ambitious structural reform agenda to identify fiscal savings and to increase the effectiveness of public...

Live long and prosper : aging in East Asia and Pacific (英语)

The population in East Asia and Pacific is aging rapidly, raising concerns about the implications for the region’s economic future. This report aims to crystallize what is known about the rapidly changing...

Live long and prosper : aging in East Asia and Pacific (汉语)

The population in East Asia and Pacific is aging rapidly, raising concerns about the implications for the region’s economic future. This report aims to crystallize what is known about the rapidly changing...

Unconditional cash transfers in China : an analysis of the rural minimum living standard guarantee program (英语)

This paper examines China’s rural minimum living standard guarantee (dibao) program, one of the largest minimum income cash transfer schemes in the world. Using household survey data matched with published...

Adjusting to a changing world (英语)

In the six months since the previous East Asia and Pacific economic update, the regional economic landscape has been dominated by two key developments in the global economy. First, there has been a sustained...

Macroeconomic implications of aging in East Asia Pacific : demography, labor markets and productivity (英语)

Any guarantees? : China's rural minimum living standard guarantee program (英语)

This paper examines China's rural minimum living standard guarantee (dibao) program, one of the largest targeted transfer schemes in the world. Using household survey data matched with published administrative...

Eligibility thresholds for minimum living guarantee programs : international practices and implications for China (英语)

Using a simple framework, this paper discusses the underlying reason of the variation of threshold level in developed countries, from the least generous 20 percent to around 60 percent of median wage...

East Asia and Pacific economic update, October 2013 : rebuilding policy buffers, reinvigorating growth (英语)

Global growth momentum accelerated during the second and third quarters of 2013, while many downside risks lingered in the background. Strengthening of global growth momentum will help developing East...

Improving nutritional status through behavioral change : lessons from Madagascar (英语)

This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Improving nutritional status through behavioral change : lessons from Madagascar, conducted between 1999 and 2002 in Madagascar...

Timor-Leste - Social assistance public expenditure and program performance report (英语)

The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste is a young, post-conflict nation endowed with significant oil revenues. Timor-Leste has one of the highest birth rates in the world (2.41 percent population growth)...

Labor market issues in Timor Leste : current state, prospects and challenges (英语)

Among the different developmental priorities in Timor?Leste a policy focus on the jobs agenda for improving living standards and social stability is crucial. Currently, over 44 percentage of the population...

Average and marginal returns to upper secondary schooling in Indonesia (英语)

This paper estimates average and marginal returns to schooling in Indonesia using a non-parametric selection model estimated by local instrumental variables, and data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey...

Improving nutritional status through behavioral change : lessons from Madagascar (英语)

This paper provides evidence of the effects of a large-scale intervention that focuses on the quality of nutritional and child care inputs during the early stages of life. The empirical strategy uses a...

在贫困的发展中国家进行的主观福利分析的可靠性：2001年的马达加斯加 (英语)

Lokshin，Umapathi和Paternostro分析了人们对2001年马达加斯加的贫困的主观认识，以及这些主观认识与客观贫困指标之间的关系。他们分析的基础是人们对一系列主观认识问题的调查反应。根据分类的消费足量问题，作者扩展了现有的估算主观贫困线的经验性方法。在该方法的基础上，他们计算了具体家庭的、主观的贫困线，并比较了根据不同主观福利问题得出的贫困特征。结果表明，根据消费足量问题得出的总贫困衡量结果与根据客观贫困线得出的衡量结果非常一致。在贫困的发展中国家，可以用主观福利分析来评估各种政策性干预的社会经济和分配影响。