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| Title: | | Evaluating the performance of means-tested benefits in Bulgaria  |
| Authors: | | Tasseva, Iva Valentinova |
| Issue Date: | | 2012 |
| Series/Report no.: | | EUROMOD Working Paper EM8/12 |
| Abstract: | | 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. |
| Subjects: | | benefit non-take up leakage exclusion and inclusion errors means-tested benefits poverty microsimulation |
| JEL: | | D31 D61 D63 H55 I32 I38 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | EUROMOD Working Paper Series, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex
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