Harnessing Public Spending for Poverty Reduction in Yemen

Leveraging Fuel Subsidy Reform for Transition in Yemen

Yemen is currently undergoing a major political transition, yet many economic challenges—including fuel subsidy reform—remain highly relevant. To inform the transition process with respect to a potential subsidy reform, we use a dynamic computable general equilibrium and microsimulation model for Yemen; we show that overall growth effects of subsidy reduction are positive in general, but povert...

Public Spending for Poverty Reduction

Can civilian disability pensions overcome the poverty issue? A DSGE analysis for Italian data

In Italy, poverty and disability are two strictly related issues (Parodi, 2004, 2006, 2007; Parodi and Sciulli, 2008; Davila Quintana and Malo, 2012). Moreover, public transfers are not sufficient to exlude households with at least one disabled member from the poverty risk. We simulate a simple Real Business Cycle model to investigate the macroeconomic effects of a permanent increase in civilia...

Cigarette smoking and poverty in China.

Drawing on the 1998 China national health services survey data, this study estimated the poverty impact of two smoking-related expenses: excessive medical spending attributable to smoking and direct spending on cigarettes. The excessive medical spending attributable to smoking is estimated using a regression model of medical expenditure with smoking status (current smoker, former smoker, never ...

Spending on social and public health services and its association with homicide in the USA: an ecological study

OBJECTIVE To examine whether state-level spending on social and public health services is associated with lower rates of homicide in the USA. DESIGN Ecological study. SETTING USA. PARTICIPANTS All states in the USA and the District of Columbia for which data were available (n=42). PRIMARY OUTCOME MEASURE Homicide rates for each state were abstracted from the US Department of Justice Fed...