Social Transfers

Social Protection and Cash Transfers

©) was established in 1975 to identify and analyze alternative national and international strategies and policies for meeting food needs of the developing world on a sustainable basis, with particular emphasis on low-income countries and on the poorer groups in those countries. While the research effort is geared to the precise objective of contributing to the reduction of hunger and malnutriti...

Social Optima of Need-based Transfers

Need based transfers (NBTs) are actions to compensate losses after disasters. They are based on shared values and reflect the understanding of the random nature of disasters. To study them, agent based simulations are performed whereby individuals that fall below a threshold (e.g. welfare threshold) will receive help from a single individual who is rich enough to help within a network of connec...

Labour income , social transfers and child poverty

This paper documents the variation in living standards of the poorest fifth of children in rich (and some middle-income) nations, with a focus on the relative importance and interaction of social transfers (net of taxes) and labour market incomes. Overall, the cross-national variation in the disposable income of disadvantaged children is comprised equally of variation in market and transfer inc...

"Social Utility" and Government Transfers of Wealth: An Austrian Perspective

One of the tenets of the Austrian position is that the free market invariably increases "social utility." If government interferes with the market process, Ludwig von Mises wrote, "it can only impair satisfaction; it can never improve it" (p. 744). The reasoning is as follows. Since any voluntary exchange will take place only when each participant expects to benefit, "the very fact that an exch...

Cash Transfers, Social Protection and Poverty Reduction (Draft) - - Discussion papers