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| Title: | Are the Poor Protected from Budget Cuts? Evidence for Argentina |
| Authors: | Ravallion, Martin |
| Keywords: | fiscal incidence
social spending
budget cuts
Argentina |
| JEL Codes: | E62
H22
I38 |
| Issue Date: | 2002-05 |
| Abstract: | Macroeconomic adjustment programs often emphasize the need to protect social spending from cuts, and to protect pro-poor spending in particular. But does this happen in practice during fiscal contractions? The paper presents evidence for Argentina. Using aggregate time series data the paper first finds that social spending was not protected historically, although more "pro-poor" social spending was no more vulnerable. Turning next to new data for an externally-financed workfare scheme introduced in response to a macro crisis, the paper finds that this program was far better targeted than other social spending. However, it appears that the program still had to assure that a small but relatively well-protected share of its benefits went to the non-poor. This appears to be a political economy constraint. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/44429 |
| Identifiers: | Print ISSN 1514-0326
Online ISSN 1667-6726 |
| Institution/Association: | Journal of Applied Economics>Volume 5, Number 1, May 2002 |
| Total Pages: | 27 |
| From Page: | 95 |
| To Page: | 121 |
| Collections: | Volume 05, Number 1, May 2002
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