Workfare versus welfare: incentive arguments for work requirements in poverty-alleviation programs

Article Abstract:

The claim that a work requirement should be placed on the recipients of poverty relief is a controversial aspect in the debate over the structure of poverty relief programs. Proponents of these programs believe that a work requirement provides participants in poverty-alleviation programs with incentives. These work requirements can target transfers to the truly needy and encourage the poor to take steps to avoid poverty in the future.

Research, Economic aspects, Employment, Welfare recipients, Welfare economics, Workfare programs

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Source of inefficiency in a representative democracy: a dynamic analysis

Article Abstract:

A model is derived to analyzed the efficiency of equilibrium policy choices in representative democracies. It is shown that political equilibrium choices are not always efficient based on standard economic criteria even if they satisfy certain efficiency properties. It is also argued that the failure to implement policies considered efficient by standard economic criteria can be deemed as political failures.

Analysis, Economic policy

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Modeling technology in developing countries

Article Abstract:

Three empirical approaches are available to use in analysing technology adoption decisions: time-series studies, cross-sectional studies and panel-data studies. Models of the adoption of technology by poor farmers can can allow dynamic choices without externalities and dynamic choices with externalities. A dynamic multi-agent model of learning in technology adoption is developed.

Noncommercial research organizations, Models, Economic development, Diffusion of innovations, Technology transfer

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