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Targeted Human Development Programs: Investing in the Next Generation

Legovini, Arianna; Regalia, Ferdinando - Inter-American Development Bank - 2001

Targeted Human Development Programs (THDPs) are integrated poverty reduction programs designed to increase the capacity …-school and school-age children. Their main long-term objective is to eradicate the structural causes of poverty by fostering … investment in the next generation's human capital. A secondary objective is to alleviate poverty in the short term, mainly …

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Conditions for Success in Implementing CCT Programs: Lessons for Asia from Latin America and the Caribbean Title: Condiciones para el éxito de la puesta en práctica de programas de...

Paes-Sousa, Romulo; Regalia, Ferdinando; Stampini, Marco - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs have become the main social assistance interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), reaching 129 million individuals in 18 countries in 2010. Programs shared key characteristics such as the payment of cash grants and the incorporation of...

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Social Assistance Poverty and Equity in the Dominican Republic

Regalia, Ferdinando; Robles, Marcos - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005

The Dominican Republic invests a considerable amount of public resources in transfer and subsidy programs with the main objective of redistributing income to and subsidizing consumption of the poor. This study measures the effectiveness with which publicly-financed transfers redistribute income....

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Social Assistance, Poverty and Equity in the Dominican Republic

Regalia, Ferdinando; Robles, Marcos - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005

The Dominican Republic invests a considerable amount of public resources in transfer and subsidy programs with the main objective of redistributing income to (and subsidizing consumption of) the poor. This study measures the effectiveness with which publicly-financed transfers redistribute...

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The Education Sector in the Dominican Republic: Overachievements and Underperformance

Ripani, Laura; Regalia, Ferdinando; Álvarez, Carola - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

This study analyzes the challenges the Dominican Republic faces to increase educational levels, particularly of the poor, making the case that, in the regional context, the Dominican Republic educational system is simultaneously an overachiever in education enrollment and an underperformer in...

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