Simple Macroeconomic Policies and Welfare: A Quantitative Assessment

International Coordination of Macroeconomic Policies: A Welfare Analysis

Macroeconomic Policies and Growth

‘Is there some action a government of Australia could take that would lead the Australian economy to grow like Korea’s or Taiwan’s? If so, what, exactly? If not, what is it about the ‘nature of Australia’ that makes it so? The consequences for human welfare involved in questions like these are simply staggering: Once one starts to think about them, it is hard to think about anything else’ (With...

Do Social-Welfare Policies Reduce Poverty? A Cross-National Assessment

Most social scientists, policy makers, and citizens who support the welfare state do so in part because they believe social-welfare programs help to reduce the incidence of poverty. Yet a growing number of critics assert that such programs in fact fail to do so, because too small a share of transfers actually reaches the poor, or because such programs create a welfare/poverty trap, or because t...

Women on Welfare: A Macroeconomic Analysis

Look at the dramatic change in family structure that has occurred recently, illustrated in Figure 1. In the United States, 23 percent of children lived with an unwed mother in 1998, compared with only 8 percent in 1960.1 Of this 15-percentage-point increase, about 6 percentage points are due to a rise in the rate of divorce; the remaining 9 percentage points arise from an increase in out-of-wed...

Macroeconomic policies , the environment , natural resources , and welfare in developing countries