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Appraising Workfare Programs
Ravallion, Martin - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998
Workfare programs aim to reduce poverty by providing low-wage work to those who need it. They are often turned to in a …-ante appraisal of an existing workfare program. For pedagogic purposes, the two programs studied are stylized versions of a range of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009350542
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Evaluación de los programas de empleo
Ravallion, Martin - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998
Los programas de empleo (conocidos en inglés con el nombre workfare) procuran disminuir la pobreza proporcionando …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357900
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Evaluación de los programas de empleo
Ravallion, Martin - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998
Los programas de empleo (conocidos en inglés con el nombre workfare) procuran disminuir la pobreza proporcionando …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010652602
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Appraising Workfare Programs
Ravallion, Martin - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998
Workfare programs aim to reduce poverty by providing low-wage work to those who need it. They are often turned to in a …-ante appraisal of an existing workfare program. For pedagogic purposes, the two programs studied are stylized versions of a range of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653634
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Downtown Poverty: Methods of Analysis and Interventions: A Sourcebook for Practitioners Title: Pobreza en áreas centrales urbanas: Métodos de análisis e intervenciones: Manual de c...
Quartesan, Alessandra (contributor);  … - Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American …
growth and rural to urban migration. It is important to emphasize that poverty tends to concentrate in cities. More than two … been accompanied by an increase in urban poverty levels.Abstract: Las áreas centrales de una ciudad contienen una mezcla de …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943395
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Shielding the Poor: Social Protection in the Developing World
Phillips, Katherin Ross; Gertler, Paul; Smeeding, Timothy M. - Inter-American Development Bank
and manage the risks that households face as part of a coherent long-term strategy to reduce poverty and promote social … equity. The articles included in this book were presented at the conference, "Social Protection and Poverty," held at the …
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Portrait of the Poor: An Assets-Based Approach
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Székely, Miguel; Gray-Molina, George - Inter-American Development Bank
This book examines poverty as a structural problem caused by the way economic systems operate. It poses a simple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943569
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From Growth to Prosperity: Policy Perspectives for Trinidad and Tobago
Artana, Daniel; Thomas, Wendell; Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; … - Inter-American Development Bank
, and pockets of poverty persist. How can the country promote sustainable and equitable development, and thus reduce poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943576
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Non-contributory pensions
Bando, Rosangela; Gertler, Paul; Galiani, Sebastián - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014
poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) --a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944279
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Income, Deprivation, and Perceptions in Latin America and the Caribbean: New Evidence from the Gallup World Poll
Gasparini, Leonardo; Escudero, Walter Sosa; Marchionni, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008
This paper is part of a large project on quality of life and deprivation in LAC commissioned by the IDB's Research Department (RES) that makes extensive use of the Gallup World Poll. This survey provides rich data on a wide range of issues in over 130 countries, 23 of them from LAC. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944360