Evaluating the performance of means-tested benefits in Bulgaria

Arbeitspapier

Little is known about the effectiveness of means-tested benefits in Bulgaria. Using individual and household level data, I analyse the performance of two social assistance and two means-tested child benefits. I find that the programmes reach a very small proportion of the households with incomes below a relative poverty line. Furthermore, the transfers are characterized with very high non-take up and inclusion of non-entitled or non-poor recipients. Poverty rates decrease by a small degree among benefit clients and yet, the impact is insufficient to affect overall poverty, or for the benefits to achieve their ultimate goals.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: EUROMOD Working Paper ; No. EM8/12

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions ; Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis ; Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; Social Security and Public Pensions ; Measurement and Analysis of Poverty ; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
• Thema: benefit non-take up ; leakage ; exclusion and inclusion errors ; means-tested benefits ; poverty ; microsimulation

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Tasseva, Iva Valentinova
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
• (wo): Colchester
• (wann): 2012

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/64886
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ