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Indigenous Development: Poverty, Democracy and Sustainability
Iturralde, Diego; Krotz, Esteban; Cárdenas, Víctor; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 1996
Seminar on Indigenous Development: Poverty, Democracy and Sustainability, organized on the occasion of the First General … approximately 40 million indigenous people of the hemisphere. In addition to the critical issues of poverty reduction, self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294044
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The Welfare Impacts of Social Housing Programs in Latin America: A Meta-impact Analysis
Ruprah, Inder - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
, income and poverty status. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364240
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Do Social Housing Programs Increase Poverty? An Empirical Analysis of Shelter Induced Poverty in Latin America
Ruprah, Inder - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
In this paper we estimate the size of shelter induced poverty by housing tenure in Latin America and determine whether … through a public or privately provided mortgage for a given valued program house) increase or decrease shelter induced poverty …. Shelter induced poverty describes the situation where a household, after paying for housing (rent or mortgage plus utilities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008783915
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Cities for All: Recent Experiences with Neighborhood Upgrading Programs Title: Ciudades para todos: La experiencia reciente en programas de mejoramiento de barrios
Brakarz, José; Rojas, Eduardo; Greene, Margarita - Inter-American Development Bank
Cities for All examines informal urbanization in Latin America as well as the methodologies being used to design and implement programs to upgrade slum areas in the region.Abstract: Ciudades para todos analiza el fenómeno de la urbanización informal en América Latina y presenta diferentes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943455
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Cities for All: Recent Experiences with Neighborhood Upgrading Programs Title: Ciudades para todos: La experiencia reciente en programas de mejoramiento de barrios
Brakarz, José; Rojas, Eduardo; Greene, Margarita - Inter-American Development Bank
Cities for All examines informal urbanization in Latin America as well as the methodologies being used to design and implement programs to upgrade slum areas in the region.Abstract: Ciudades para todos analiza el fenómeno de la urbanización informal en América Latina y presenta diferentes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772395
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Indigenous Development: Poverty, Democracy and Sustainability
Iturralde, Diego; Krotz, Esteban; Cárdenas, Víctor; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 1996
Seminar on Indigenous Development: Poverty, Democracy and Sustainability, organized on the occasion of the First General … approximately 40 million indigenous people of the hemisphere. In addition to the critical issues of poverty reduction, self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010652718
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Latin American Middle Classes: The Distance between Perception and Reality
Lora, Eduardo; Fajardo, Deisy Johanna - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
The main contribution of this paper with respect to previous work is the use of data on subjective perceptions to identify the Latin American middle classes. This paper provides a set of comparisons between objective and subjective definitions of middle-class using data from the 2007 World...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386058
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On the Distributive Costs of Drug-Related Homicides
Ajzenman, Nicolas; Galiani, Sebastian; Seira, Enrique - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014
There are few reliable estimates of the effects of violence on economic outcomes. This study exploits the manifold increase in homicides in 2008-2011 in Mexico resulting from its war on organized drug traffickers to estimate the effect of drug- related homicides on housing prices. Using an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731969
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Cash Transfers and Anemia Among Women of Reproductive Age
Schady, Norbert - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Iron deficiency anemia is the most prevalent nutritional deficiency in the world, affecting more than 2 billion people in developing countries. We show that a modest cash transfer substantially reduced anemia among women of reproductive age in rural Ecuador.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653877
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Cash Transfers, Behavioral Changes, and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Macours, Karen; Schady, Norbert; Vakis, Renos - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Cash transfer programs have become extremely popular in the developing world. There is a large literature on the effects of these programs on schooling, health and nutrition, but relatively little is known about possible impacts on child development. This paper analyzes the impact of a cash...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010654790