Decentralizing Eligibility for a Federal Antipoverty Program

In theory, the informational advantage of decentralizing the eligibility criteria for a federal antipoverty program could come at a large cost to the program's performance in reaching the poor nationally. Whether this happens in practice depends on the size of the local-income effect on the eli...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ravallion, Martin
Format: Journal Article
Published: World Bank 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4492

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