Poverty Alleviation in a Financial Programming Framework: An Integrated Approach

By Sheetal K. Chand, Parthasarathi Shome

March 1, 1995

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Sheetal K. Chand, and Parthasarathi Shome. Poverty Alleviation in a Financial Programming Framework: An Integrated Approach, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1995) accessed December 22, 2024

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Summary

Poverty alleviation is typically addressed in financial programming through additive programs that target vulnerable groups but without modifying the underlying stabilization and adjustment targets. Instead, this paper integrates the poverty alleviation objective into the financial programming framework using a well-known poverty index. In consequence, the assessment of trade-offs between competing objectives is facilitated. A simulation demonstrates how the integrated approach can reduce adverse effects on poverty and improve the balance of payments, although at the cost, temporarily, of a higher fiscal deficit and inflation.

Subject: Income distribution, Personal income, Poverty, Poverty measurement, Poverty reduction

Keywords: Balance of payments, Per capita income, Poverty line, WP

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28
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Working Paper No. 1995/029
Stock No:

WPIEA0291995
ISBN:

9781451844740
ISSN:

1018-5941

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