Poverty reduction and SAM multipliers: An evaluation of public policies in a regional framework

• Autores: Francisco Javier de Miguel Vélez, Antonio Jesús Pérez Mayo
• Localización: Notas técnicas: [continuación de Documentos de Trabajo FUNCAS], ISSN-e 1988-8767, Nº. 306, 2007
• Idioma: español
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  • The objective of this paper is to obtain several poverty reduction effects by using accounting multipliers based on Social Accounting Matrices (SAMs). Expressions relating these multipliers to FGT poverty measures were derived, and two simulation exercises were carried out for the Spanish region of Extremadura using a SAM of this economy as database. In the first, we posited a per capita transfer for the amount of certain social policy instruments that are already in place in this region. In the second, we calculated the minimum government expenditure in transfers needed to reduce the regional poverty indices to the corresponding national values. The results confirmed that the main characteristic of poverty in Extremadura is its incidence.