Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/64886 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
EUROMOD Working Paper No. EM8/12
Publisher: 
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
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

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