Public spending and the poor : theory and evidence / edited by Dominique van de Walle, Kimberly Nead

Theory and method, 7. -- The political economy of targeting, 11. -- On targeting social security : Theory and western experience with family benefits, 25. -- Measuring the distributional impact of public goods, 69. -- Labor supply and targeting in poverty - alleviation programs, 91. -- The determinants and consquences of the placement of government programs in Indonesia, 114. -- Spending on education, 151. -- Measuring the distributional effects of public education in Peru, 154. -- Public schooling expenditures in rural Pakistan : Efficiently targeting girls and a lagging region, 187. -- Spending on health, 223. -- The distribution of subsidies through public health services in Indonesia, 1978-87, 226. -- Government health spending in Indonesia : Impacts on children in different economic groups, 259. -- Cash transfers, 291. -- The targeting of family allowances in Hungary, 294. -- Private transfers and the effectiveness of public income redistribution in the philippines, 321. -- Food subsidies, 347. -- Two errors of targeting, 350. -- Incentive effects on labor supply of Sri Lanka's Rice subsidy, 387. -- Public employement schemes, 411. -- Targeting through a work requirement efficient? Some evidence for rural India, 413. -- Comparing instruments, 445. -- Toward quantifying the trade - off : Administrative costs and incidence in targeted programs in Latin America, 450. -- The distributional impact of cash and in-kind transfers in Eastern Europe and Russia, 489. -- Distributional effects of social sector expenditures in Malaysia, 1974 to 1989, 521. -- On gender targeting of public transfers, 555. -- Toward a synthesis, 583. -- Incidence and targeting : An overview of implications for research and policy, 585