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Issues in Indigenous Poverty and Development

Plant, Roger - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998

patterns of indigenous poverty over time. In addition, the first section examines some of the historical determinants that can … explain the disproportionate poverty confronting Latin America's indigenous peoples today and provides an overview of diverse … with measures to combat indigenous poverty through the policies and programs of governments and international actors …

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Large Scale Contracting out of Basic Health Services for the Poor in Guatemala: The SIAS Program: Design, Processes and Results

Forgia, Jerry La - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005

This presentation gives an overiew of the SIAS Program from 1997-2001, including: 1) Rationale; 2) Objectives; 3) Design; 4) Performance; 5) Issues and Problems; 6) Political Economy of Change. An appraisal of the health situation Guatemala is also given. This presentation was presented at the...

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Health and Poverty in Brazil: Estimation by Structural Equation Model with Latent Variables

Giuffrida, Antonio; Iunes, Roberto F.; Savedoff, William D. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005

Brazil is characterized by large inequalities in income, access to health care, and health status. This paper uses data from the 1998 Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios to analyze the complex relationships among health, income, health insurance and health care utilization to gain a...

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Reaching the Poor through Demand Subsidies: The Colombian Health Reform

Savedoff, William D. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

This paper discusses the Colombian Health Reform, a reform seeking to equalize access to health services for the poor by giving them insurance that can purchase care from public or private providers. The discussion consists of a series of reflections from a seminar that took place in...

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IDB-9: Evaluación de la estrategia del Sector Social para la igualdad y la productividad Title: IDB-9: Assessment of the Social Strategy for Equity and Productivity

Raw, Silvia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

El Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID, o el Banco), como parte del Noveno Aumento General de Recursos (BID-9), se comprometió a elaborar documentos estratégicos para una de sus áreas prioritarias, las políticas sociales para la igualdad y la productividad. Este informe evalúa si tal...

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Overview of Early Childhood Development Services in Latin America and the Caribbean

Araujo, María Caridad; Bóo, Florencia López; Puyana, … - Inter-American Development Bank

This study collects and systematizes detailed, updated and comparable information about the design, management, funding and quality of child development services in Latin America and the Caribbean. It focuses on two types of programs serving children from 0 to 3 years of age and their families:...

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Guyana: Technical Note on Indigenous Peoples

Renshaw, Jonathan - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007

The aim of this note is to provide an overview of the situation of the Indigenous Peoples of Guyana. The note covers a range of issues, including land regularisation, environment - especially mining, logging and the establishment of protected areas - economic development, education, health care...

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Haitian Diaspora Associations and their Investments in Basic Social Services in Haiti

Fagen, Patricia Weiss; Dade, Carlo; Maguire, Robert; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009

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Demand-Side Incentives for Better Health for the Poor: Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean

Glassman, Amanda; Gaarder, Marie Moland; Todd, Jessica - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs are spreading rapidly throughout the developing world. These are the subjects of this paper and include Colombia's Familias en Acción, Honduras' PRAF, Jamaica's PATH, Mexico's Progresa/Oportunidades, and Nicaragua's Red de Protección Social. While...

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Program Evaluation and Spillover Effects

Angelucci, Manuela; Maro, Vincenzo Di - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

This note defines what spillover effects are, why it is important to measure them, and how to design an evaluation that will enable researchers to measure the impact of the program in the presence of spillover effects on subjects both eligible and ineligible for the program. Several practical...

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