Social Assistance - Cash Transfers

A wide range of public policies aims at improving the social welfare of the population or specific groups among the population. The use of the term social protection usually refers to the group of social policies that provide cash transfer to protect households from poverty. The goal of this study is to measure the possible impact of these new policies. Because the new regulations have been recently passed and few administrative data on the programs are available, the study cannot report on the effective impact of the new policy. The approach instead uses the 2006 VHLSS (Vietnamese Household Living Standard Survey) to estimate how efficient the new policy could be if it had enough resource to be fully implemented without any restriction. The first section measures how many of the poor could be eligible to social allowances if the decision 67 could be fully implemented. The second section describes the characteristics of the poor that would probably not benefit from this new policy.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Tuyet, Pham Anh, Castel, Paulette
Format:	Report biblioteca
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2009-02
Subjects:	CALORIES PER DAY, CASH TRANSFERS, CHILD LABOR, CHRONICALLY POOR, CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA, COPING STRATEGY, CULTURE OF DEPENDENCY, DRINKING WATER, ECONOMIC GROWTH, ELIGIBILITY, EPIDEMICS, EXTREME POVERTY, EXTREMELY POOR HOUSEHOLDS, FAMILY INCOME, FAMILY MEMBERS, FAMILY POVERTY, FAMILY POVERTY BENEFIT, FERTILITY, FOOD ITEMS, FOOD POVERTY, FOOD POVERTY LINE, GDP, HEALTH EXPENDITURE, HEALTH INSURANCE, HOUSEHOLD BUDGET, HOUSEHOLD HEAD, HOUSEHOLD PER CAPITA INCOME, HOUSING, HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE, ILLNESS, IMPACT ON POVERTY, INCOME, INCOME SHOCKS, INDICATOR OF POVERTY, LACK OF INFORMATION, LIVESTOCK LOSSES, LOW INCOME, MEANS TESTING, NATURAL DISASTER, PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, POOR, POOR CHILDREN, POOR FAMILIES, POOR HOUSEHOLD, POOR HOUSEHOLDS, POOR PEOPLE, POOR PERSONS, POOR POPULATION, POOR POPULATIONS, POOR REGIONS, POVERTY ASSESSMENT, POVERTY CRITERIA, POVERTY GAP, POVERTY LINES, POVERTY POVERTY, POVERTY PROFILES, POVERTY RATE, POVERTY RATES, POVERTY REDUCTION, POVERTY STATUS, POVERTY THRESHOLD, RURAL, RURAL AREAS, SAFETY NET, SAFETY NET PROGRAMS, SAFETY NETS, SELF-EMPLOYMENT, SOCIAL ASSISTANCE, SOCIAL POLICIES, SOCIAL PROTECTION, SOCIAL SECURITY, SUBSISTENCE, TARGETING, TRANSFER AMOUNTS, UNEMPLOYMENT, WAR, WORKING POOR,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/407451468049854360/Social-assistance-cash-transfers-potential-impact-of-decision-67 https://hdl.handle.net/10986/28074
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