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Universal Basic Incomes versus Targeted Transfers: Anti-Poverty Programs in Developing Countries

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  1. Beuermann, Diether W. & Hoffmann, Bridget & Stampini, Marco & Vargas, David L. & Vera-Cossio, Diego, 2025. "Shooting a moving target: Evaluating targeting tools for social programs when income fluctuates," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 172(C).
  2. Gray Molina George & Montoya-Aguirre María & Ortiz-Juarez Eduardo, 2022. "Temporary Basic Income in Times of Pandemic: Rationale, Costs and Poverty-Mitigation Potential," Basic Income Studies, De Gruyter, vol. 17(2), pages 125-154, December.
  3. Missbach, Leonard & Steckel, Jan Christoph & Vogt-Schilb, Adrien, 2024. "Cash transfers in the context of carbon pricing reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 173(C).
  4. Pierre Bachas & Lucie Gadenne & Anders Jensen, 2024. "Informality, Consumption Taxes, and Redistribution," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 91(5), pages 2604-2634.
  5. Nasri, Khaled & Weslati, Adnen, 2022. "Targeting Household Deprivations for Multidimensional Poverty Alleviation: An Application to Tunisian Data," GLO Discussion Paper Series 1019, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
  6. Sushama Murty, 2019. "Some results from the theory of optimal taxation and their relevance for increasing the progressiveness of Indian tax structure," Indian Economic Review, Springer, vol. 54(1), pages 19-50, June.
  7. La, Jung Joo, 2023. "Macroeconomic effects of basic income funded by land holding tax," MPRA Paper 116151, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  8. Ali Enami & Ugo Gentilini & Patricio Larroulet & Nora Lustig & Emma Monsalve & Siyu Quan & Jamele Rigolini, 2023. "Universal Basic Income Programs: How Much Would Taxes Need to Rise? Evidence for Brazil, Chile, India, Russia, and South Africa," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 59(9), pages 1443-1463, September.
  9. Malerba, Daniele & Roscioli, Federico & Gaentzsch, Anja & Ward, Hauke, 2024. "Changing carbon footprints and the consequent impacts of carbon taxes and cash transfers on poverty and inequality across years: A Peruvian case study," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 192(C).
  10. Nanak Kakwani & Xiaobing Wang & Jing Xu & Ximing Yue, 2021. "Assessing the Social Welfare Effects of Government Transfer Programs: Some International Comparisons☆," Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, vol. 67(4), pages 1005-1028, December.
  11. Borga, Liyousew G. & D’Ambrosio, Conchita, 2021. "Social protection and multidimensional poverty: Lessons from Ethiopia, India and Peru," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 147(C).
  12. Haseeb, Muhammad & Vyborny, Kate, 2022. "Data, discretion and institutional capacity: Evidence from cash transfers in Pakistan," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 206(C).
  13. Ghislain Herman Demeze-Jouatsa & Roland Pongou & Jean-Baptiste Tondji, 2024. "Justice, inclusion, and incentives," Journal of Theoretical Politics, , vol. 36(2), pages 101-131, April.
  14. C. Justin Cook & Manisha Shah, 2022. "Aggregate Effects from Public Works: Evidence from India," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 104(4), pages 797-806, October.
  15. Andre Luduvice, 2021. "The Macroeconomic Effects of Universal Basic Income Programs," Working Papers 21-21, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
  16. Daniel Bjorkegren & Joshua E. Blumenstock & Samsun Knight, 2020. "Manipulation-Proof Machine Learning," Papers 2004.03865, arXiv.org.
  17. Sabrina Duarte & Liliana Forzani & Pamela Llop & Rodrigo García Arancibia & Diego Tomassi, 2023. "Socioeconomic Index for Income and Poverty Prediction: A Sufficient Dimension Reduction Approach," Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, vol. 69(2), pages 318-346, June.
  18. Katy Bergstrom & Berk Özler, 2023. "Improving the Well-Being of Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries," The World Bank Research Observer, World Bank, vol. 38(2), pages 179-212.
  19. Xavier Cirera & Marcio Cruz & Elwyn Davies & Arti Grover & Leonardo Iacovone & Jose Ernesto Lopez Cordova & Denis Medvedev & Franklin Okechukwu Maduko & Gaurav Nayyar & Santiago Reyes Ortega & Jesica , 2021. "Policies to Support Businesses through the COVID-19 Shock: A Firm Level Perspective [Economic Uncertainty before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic]," The World Bank Research Observer, World Bank, vol. 36(1), pages 41-66.
  20. Hikaru Kawarazaki, 2023. "Early childhood education and care: effects after half a century and their mechanisms," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 36(4), pages 2725-2797, October.
  21. H. Xavier Jara & María Gabriela Palacio Ludeña, 2024. "Rethinking social assistance amid the COVID‐19 pandemic: Guaranteeing the right to income security in Ecuador," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 36(3), pages 1738-1764, April.
  22. Katy Bergstrom & William Dodds & Juan Rios, 2025. "Welfare Analysis of Changing Notches: Evidence from Bolsa Família," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Association, vol. 17(2), pages 122-161, May.
  23. Salomo Hirvonen & Jerome Schafer & Janne Tukiainen, 2022. "Policy Feedback and Civic Engagement: Evidence from the Finnish Basic Income Experiment," Discussion Papers 155, Aboa Centre for Economics.
  24. Hossain, Marup & Mendiratta, Vibhuti & Savastano, Sara, 2024. "Agricultural and Rural Development Interventions and Poverty Reduction: Global Evidence from 16 Impact Assessment Studies," IAAE 2024 Conference, August 2-7, 2024, New Delhi, India 344302, International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE).
  25. Bottan, Nicolas & Hoffmann, Bridget & Vera-Cossio, Diego A., 2021. "Stepping up during a crisis: The unintended effects of a noncontributory pension program during the Covid-19 pandemic," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 150(C).
  26. Antonia Asenjo & Verónica Escudero & Hannah Liepmann, 2024. "Why Should we Integrate Income and Employment Support? A Conceptual and Empirical Investigation," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 60(1), pages 1-29, January.
  27. Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa, 2019. "Welfare and Redistributive Effects of Social Assistance in the Global South," Population and Development Review, The Population Council, Inc., vol. 45(S1), pages 3-22, December.
  28. Martin Caruso Bloeck & Sebastian Galiani & Federico Weinschelbaum, 2019. "Poverty alleviation strategies under informality: evidence for Latin America," Latin American Economic Review, Springer;Centro de Investigaciòn y Docencia Económica (CIDE), vol. 28(1), pages 1-40, December.
  29. Zimmermann, Laura, 2020. "Why Guarantee Employment? Evidence from a Large Indian Public-Works Program," GLO Discussion Paper Series 504, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
  30. Nanak Kakwani & Xiaobing Wang & Jing Xu & Ximing Yue, 2020. "Assessing the Social Welfare Effects of Government Transfer Programs: Some International Comparisons," LIS Working papers 786, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg.
  31. Abhijit Banerjee & Paul Niehaus & Tavneet Suri, 2019. "Universal Basic Income in the Developing World," Annual Review of Economics, Annual Reviews, vol. 11(1), pages 959-983, August.
  32. Diego Daruich & Raquel Fernández, 2024. "Universal Basic Income: A Dynamic Assessment," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 114(1), pages 38-88, January.
  33. Nakamura, Nobuyuki & Suzuki, Aya, 2022. "How Altruism Works during a Pandemic: Examining the Roles of Financial Support and Degrees of Individual Altruism on International Remittance," 2022 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Anaheim, California 322073, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
  34. Ghislain H. Demeze-Jouatsa & Roland Pongou & Jean-Baptiste Tondji, 2021. "A Free and Fair Economy: A Game of Justice and Inclusion," Papers 2107.12870, arXiv.org.
  35. Guo, Naijia & Huang, Wei & Wang, Ruixin, 2025. "Public pensions and family dynamics: Eldercare, child investment, and son preference in rural China," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 172(C).
  36. Stefanía D’Iorio & Liliana Forzani & Rodrigo García Arancibia & Ignacio Girela, 2024. "Predictive power of composite socioeconomic indices for targeted programs: principal components and partial least squares," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 58(4), pages 3497-3534, August.
  37. Mariapia Mendola & Mengesha Yayo Negasi, 2019. "Nutritional and Schooling Impact of a Cash Transfer Program in Ethiopia: A Retrospective Analysis of Childhood Experience," Development Working Papers 451, Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano, University of Milano.
  38. Gershoni, Naomi & Gihleb, Rania & Kott, Assaf & Mansour, Hani & Shanan, Yannay, 2025. "Adjustments to Reduced Cash Transfers: Religious Safety Nets and Children’s Long-Term Outcomes," IZA Discussion Papers 17873, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
  39. Yuki Higuchi & Nobuhiko Fuwa & Kei Kajisa & Takahiro Sato & Yasuyuki Sawada, 2019. "Disaster Aid Targeting and Self-Reporting Bias: Natural Experimental Evidence from the Philippines," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(3), pages 1-13, February.
  40. Missbach, Leonard & Steckel, Jan Christoph, 2024. "Distributional impacts of climate policy and effective compensation: Evidence from 88 countries," EconStor Preprints 296491, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
  41. Craig Gundersen, 2019. "The Right to Food in the United States: The Role of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 101(5), pages 1328-1336, October.
  42. Malerba, Daniele & Gaentzsch, Anja & Ward, Hauke, 2021. "Mitigating poverty: The patterns of multiple carbon tax and recycling regimes for Peru," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 149(C).
  43. Andrew F. Johnson & Katherine J. Roberto, 2020. "The COVID‐19 pandemic: Time for a universal basic income?," Public Administration & Development, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 40(4), pages 232-235, October.
  44. Emily Aiken & Suzanne Bellue & Dean Karlan & Christopher R. Udry & Joshua Blumenstock, 2021. "Machine Learning and Mobile Phone Data Can Improve the Targeting of Humanitarian Assistance," NBER Working Papers 29070, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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  46. Redmond, Paul & McGuinness, Seamus & Ciprikis, Klavs, 2022. "A Universal Basic Income for Ireland: Lessons from the international literature," Research Series, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), number RS146.
  47. I. D. Brouwer & M. J. Liere & A. Brauw & P. Dominguez-Salas & A. Herforth & G. Kennedy & C. Lachat & E. B. Omosa & E. F. Talsma & S. Vandevijvere & J. Fanzo & M. Ruel, 2021. "Reverse thinking: taking a healthy diet perspective towards food systems transformations," Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, Springer;The International Society for Plant Pathology, vol. 13(6), pages 1497-1523, December.
  48. Bjorkegren, Dan & Blumenstock, Joshua & Knight, Samsun, 2022. "(Machine) Learning What Policies Value," CEPR Discussion Papers 17364, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  49. Helmy, Imane & Ghoneim, Hebatallah & Siddig, Khalid, 2019. "Implementing Cash Transfer Programmes in Egypt Differently: An Economic Impact Analysis," Conference papers 333055, Purdue University, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Global Trade Analysis Project.
  50. Kacker, Kanishka, 2019. "Social transfers and labor supply: Long run rvidence from South Africa," MPRA Paper 99044, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  51. Schnitzer,Pascale & Stoeffler,Quentin, 2021. "Targeting for Social Safety Nets : Evidence from Nine Programs in the Sahel," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9816, The World Bank.
  52. Marianne Bertrand & Bruno Crépon & Alicia Marguerie & Patrick Premand, 2021. "Do Workfare Programs Live Up to Their Promises? Experimental Evidence from Cote D’Ivoire," NBER Working Papers 28664, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  53. Christopher J. Johnstone, 2022. "Conceptualising inclusive development by identifying universality, plurality, sociality, and relationality," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 34(6), pages 1165-1175, August.
  54. Luduvice, André Victor Doherty, 2024. "The macroeconomic effects of universal basic income programs," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 148(C).
  55. Patrick Premand & Pascale Schnitzer, 2021. "Efficiency, Legitimacy, and Impacts of Targeting Methods: Evidence from an Experiment in Niger," The World Bank Economic Review, World Bank, vol. 35(4), pages 892-920.
  56. Stefanía D’Iorio & Liliana Forzani & Rodrigo García Arancibia & Ignacio Girela, 2023. "Predictive Power of Composite Socioeconomic Indices in Regression and Classification: Principal Components and Partial Least Squares," Working Papers 246, Red Nacional de Investigadores en Economía (RedNIE).
  57. Jose Cuesta & Julieth Pico, 2020. "The Gendered Poverty Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Colombia," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 32(5), pages 1558-1591, December.
  58. Hlasny, Vladimir & Asadullah, M Niaz & Sabra, Alia, 2022. "The Adoption of the Multidimensional Poverty Index in Developing Asia: Implications for Social Program Targeting and Inequality Reduction," Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, vol. 56(3), pages 185-195.
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