Combating fraud in Poverty-Alleviation Programs - should we use monitoring, workfare or both?
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Keywords
Poverty alleviation programs; workfare; monitoring; fraud; adverse selection.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CTA-2013-06-24 (Contract Theory and Applications)
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