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