TY - BOOK ID - 135754311 TI - The Impact of Pro-Vulnerable Income Transfers : Leisure, Dependency and a Distribution Hypothesis PY - 2011 PB - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Dependency KW - Economic Theory & Research KW - Food & Beverage Industry KW - Income Distribution KW - Income Transfers KW - Labor Policies KW - Labour Supply KW - Macroeconomics and Economic Growth KW - Poverty Monitoring & Analysis KW - Safety Nets KW - Services & Transfers to Poor UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135754311 AB - This paper studies a transmission mechanism through which pro-vulnerable income transfers may affect individual decision-making of non-beneficiaries in an extreme poverty context, leading to labor supply contraction and the so-called dependency syndrome. The argument is based on the distributional distortion this transfer may provoke to the relative quality of leisure, enjoyed by the population in an extreme poverty scenario. Assuming the existence of vulnerable individuals and different income groups based on certain physical, economic, or social characteristics, the author studies their decision processes and, in particular, their reactions to the aid program. The results of this theoretical research provide some insights on the conditions that an optimal pro-poor income transfer should present. A literature review is presented in support of the arguments made in the theoretical part. ER -