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Anti-Poverty Transfers without Riots in Tunisia

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Date
2007
Publisher city
Paris
Publisher
IRD
Collection title
DIAL Document de travail
Collection Id
DT/2007-08
Dewey
Economie sociale
Sujet
Tunisie; normes de travail; salaires; emploi; zones franches; Social transfers; Targeting; Tunisia; North Africa; Social conflicts; Poverty
JEL code
I38; H53; D63
URI
https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/4334
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Author
Muller, Christophe
Type
Document de travail / Working paper
Item number of pages
17
Abstract (EN)
We draw some lessons from the Tunisian experience of social reforms and associated civil conflict. Our main interest is the riots that occurred after subsidy cuts and their possible substitution of price subsidies by direct cash transfers. We propose new welfare indicators apt to assess policy reforms in situations of fragile states. Finally, using micro level data we show that the plausible policy decision depend on parameters describing the balance between poverty and program exclusion risk. In the Tunisian case, only a much larger weight put on poverty relatively to exclusion could bring the decision maker to substitute the in force price subsidies with direct cash transfers, for fear of social unrest.

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