Assessing the Distributional Impact of Public Policy

Economic development necessarily changes the welfare of socioeconomic groups to various degrees, depending on differences in their social arrangements. The challenge for policymakers is to select the changes that will be most socially desirable. Th...

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Main Author: Essama-Nssah, B.
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
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Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/09/2016298/assessing-distributional-impact-public-policy
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spelling okr-10986-192792021-04-23T14:03:42Z Assessing the Distributional Impact of Public Policy Essama-Nssah, B. PUBLIC POLICY EVALUATION DISTRIBUTIONAL IMPACT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WELFARE ECONOMICS SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS POVERTY INDEX INEQUITY GINI COEFFICIENT POVERTY INCIDENCE COMMODITY TAXATION POLICY PLANNING SOCIAL WELFARE COMPUTERIZATION AVAILABLE DATA BENCHMARK BETWEEN-GROUP INEQUALITY CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION DATA SET DATA SETS DECREASING FUNCTION DEVELOPING WORLD DEVELOPMENT GOALS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTION DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS DISTRIBUTIONAL ANALYSIS DISTRIBUTIONAL IMPACT ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT ELASTICITY EQUAL WEIGHT FACTOR COMPONENTS GINI COEFFICIENT GROUP INEQUALITY HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURES HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEY DATA IMPACT ANALYSIS INCOME INCOME ELASTICITY INCOME HOUSEHOLDS INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME SHARE INEQUALITY INEQUALITY INDICATORS LIVING STANDARD LORENZ CURVE POLICY ANALYSIS POLICY OPTIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY STATEMENT POOR GROUP POPULATION SHARE POVERTY ANALYSIS POVERTY ASSESSMENT POVERTY ERADICATION POVERTY IMPACT POVERTY INDICES POVERTY LINE POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY POVERTY STATUS PROGRAMS PUBLIC POLICY SERIES DATA SOCIAL EXCLUSION SOCIAL JUSTICE SOCIAL PROGRESS SOCIAL WELFARE STATISTICAL OFFICE TAXATION TIME SERIES VALUATION VALUE JUDGMENTS WELL-BEING Economic development necessarily changes the welfare of socioeconomic groups to various degrees, depending on differences in their social arrangements. The challenge for policymakers is to select the changes that will be most socially desirable. The author demonstrates the usefulness of distributional analysis for social evaluation and, more specifically, for welfare evaluation, using data from the 1994 Integrated Household Survey in Guinea. Because the international community has declared poverty eradication a fundamental objective of development, the author uses a poverty-focused approach to social evaluation based on the maximum principle. This principle offers a unifying framework for analyzing the socioeconomic impact of public policy by using a wide variety of evaluation functions, inequality indicators (like the extended Gini coefficient), and poverty indices (such as Sen's index and the members of the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke family). The author also examines, within the context of commodity taxation, how to identify socially desirable policy options using both the dominance criterion and abbreviated social welfare functions. He includes computer routines for calculating various welfare indices and for plotting the relevant concentration curves. 2014-08-11T16:46:53Z 2014-08-11T16:46:53Z 2002-09 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/09/2016298/assessing-distributional-impact-public-policy http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19279 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 2883 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Africa Guinea
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topic PUBLIC POLICY EVALUATION
DISTRIBUTIONAL IMPACT
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
WELFARE ECONOMICS
SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS
SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT
HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
POVERTY INDEX
INEQUITY
GINI COEFFICIENT
POVERTY INCIDENCE
COMMODITY TAXATION
POLICY PLANNING
SOCIAL WELFARE
COMPUTERIZATION AVAILABLE DATA
BENCHMARK
BETWEEN-GROUP INEQUALITY
CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION
DATA SET
DATA SETS
DECREASING FUNCTION
DEVELOPING WORLD
DEVELOPMENT GOALS
DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTION
DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS
DISTRIBUTIONAL ANALYSIS
DISTRIBUTIONAL IMPACT
ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS
ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT
ELASTICITY
EQUAL WEIGHT
FACTOR COMPONENTS
GINI COEFFICIENT
GROUP INEQUALITY
HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURES
HOUSEHOLD LEVEL
HOUSEHOLD SIZE
HOUSEHOLD SURVEY
HOUSEHOLD SURVEY DATA
IMPACT ANALYSIS
INCOME
INCOME ELASTICITY
INCOME HOUSEHOLDS
INCOME INEQUALITY
INCOME SHARE
INEQUALITY
INEQUALITY INDICATORS
LIVING STANDARD
LORENZ CURVE
POLICY ANALYSIS
POLICY OPTIONS
POLICY RESEARCH
POLICY STATEMENT
POOR GROUP
POPULATION SHARE
POVERTY ANALYSIS
POVERTY ASSESSMENT
POVERTY ERADICATION
POVERTY IMPACT
POVERTY INDICES
POVERTY LINE
POVERTY REDUCTION
POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY
POVERTY STATUS
PROGRAMS
PUBLIC POLICY
SERIES DATA
SOCIAL EXCLUSION
SOCIAL JUSTICE
SOCIAL PROGRESS
SOCIAL WELFARE
STATISTICAL OFFICE
TAXATION
TIME SERIES
VALUATION
VALUE JUDGMENTS
WELL-BEING
spellingShingle PUBLIC POLICY EVALUATION
DISTRIBUTIONAL IMPACT
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
WELFARE ECONOMICS
SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS
SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT
HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
POVERTY INDEX
INEQUITY
GINI COEFFICIENT
POVERTY INCIDENCE
COMMODITY TAXATION
POLICY PLANNING
SOCIAL WELFARE
COMPUTERIZATION AVAILABLE DATA
BENCHMARK
BETWEEN-GROUP INEQUALITY
CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION
DATA SET
DATA SETS
DECREASING FUNCTION
DEVELOPING WORLD
DEVELOPMENT GOALS
DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTION
DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS
DISTRIBUTIONAL ANALYSIS
DISTRIBUTIONAL IMPACT
ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS
ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT
ELASTICITY
EQUAL WEIGHT
FACTOR COMPONENTS
GINI COEFFICIENT
GROUP INEQUALITY
HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURES
HOUSEHOLD LEVEL
HOUSEHOLD SIZE
HOUSEHOLD SURVEY
HOUSEHOLD SURVEY DATA
IMPACT ANALYSIS
INCOME
INCOME ELASTICITY
INCOME HOUSEHOLDS
INCOME INEQUALITY
INCOME SHARE
INEQUALITY
INEQUALITY INDICATORS
LIVING STANDARD
LORENZ CURVE
POLICY ANALYSIS
POLICY OPTIONS
POLICY RESEARCH
POLICY STATEMENT
POOR GROUP
POPULATION SHARE
POVERTY ANALYSIS
POVERTY ASSESSMENT
POVERTY ERADICATION
POVERTY IMPACT
POVERTY INDICES
POVERTY LINE
POVERTY REDUCTION
POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY
POVERTY STATUS
PROGRAMS
PUBLIC POLICY
SERIES DATA
SOCIAL EXCLUSION
SOCIAL JUSTICE
SOCIAL PROGRESS
SOCIAL WELFARE
STATISTICAL OFFICE
TAXATION
TIME SERIES
VALUATION
VALUE JUDGMENTS
WELL-BEING
Essama-Nssah, B.
Assessing the Distributional Impact of Public Policy
geographic_facet Africa
Guinea
relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 2883
description Economic development necessarily changes the welfare of socioeconomic groups to various degrees, depending on differences in their social arrangements. The challenge for policymakers is to select the changes that will be most socially desirable. The author demonstrates the usefulness of distributional analysis for social evaluation and, more specifically, for welfare evaluation, using data from the 1994 Integrated Household Survey in Guinea. Because the international community has declared poverty eradication a fundamental objective of development, the author uses a poverty-focused approach to social evaluation based on the maximum principle. This principle offers a unifying framework for analyzing the socioeconomic impact of public policy by using a wide variety of evaluation functions, inequality indicators (like the extended Gini coefficient), and poverty indices (such as Sen's index and the members of the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke family). The author also examines, within the context of commodity taxation, how to identify socially desirable policy options using both the dominance criterion and abbreviated social welfare functions. He includes computer routines for calculating various welfare indices and for plotting the relevant concentration curves.
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author Essama-Nssah, B.
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title Assessing the Distributional Impact of Public Policy
title_short Assessing the Distributional Impact of Public Policy
title_full Assessing the Distributional Impact of Public Policy
title_fullStr Assessing the Distributional Impact of Public Policy
title_full_unstemmed Assessing the Distributional Impact of Public Policy
title_sort assessing the distributional impact of public policy
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2014
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/09/2016298/assessing-distributional-impact-public-policy
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