IMF Working Papers

Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety Net Schemes for Economies in Transition

By Gillian Paull

February 1, 1991

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Gillian Paull. Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety Net Schemes for Economies in Transition, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1991) accessed September 20, 2024
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Summary

Inspired by the current Polish economic restructuring program, this paper attempts to develop a general income support scheme that could serve as a model to alleviate poverty in developed economies in the transitional phase. The proposed scheme has the advantage that no part of the poor population is omitted from eligibility for support sufficient to remove them from poverty. The concept of the simplified model is protection against poverty through income maintenance that is conditional upon fulfillment of forward-looking requirements such as workfare, training or job search. Further, the scheme considers methods whereby limited national resources can be managed by official policies that combine into a coherent, cost-effective package, an optimal mix of income guarantee levels and incentive effects.

Subject: Employment, Labor, National accounts, Personal income, Poverty, Wages

Keywords: Average earnings, Benefit level, Employment, Europe, Income maintenance program, Job market, Maintenance program, Per capita income, Personal income, Poverty line, Private sector, Standard of living, Track benefit, Transfer program, Wage rate, Wages, Work disincentive, Work requirement, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    80

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1991/014

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0141991

  • ISBN:

    9781451924107

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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