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"While much attention has been given to examining various aspects of poverty, a number of studies have shown that institutional environment in which the poor exist conditions welfare outcomes, thus highlighting the inherently crucial importance of institutions for poverty reduction. The...
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This report provides an evaluation of the community-level effects of the Programa Nacional de Educacion, Salud, y … Alimentacion (PROGRESA) using household-level data from various rounds of PROGRESA's evaluation sample (the Encuesta de Evaluacion … de los Hogares [ENCEL] surveys).Other reports in the evaluation series have focused on the direct effects of PROGRESA …
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definition and agenda setting, formal decision making, policy implementation, evaluation, and then back to problem definition and …
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practice and how mixed approaches are appreciated in social program evaluation." from authors' abstract …
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"With high food prices threatening the food security of millions of vulnerable households around the world, hunger and malnutrition are back in the headlines. The world is making only slow progress in reducing food insecurity, according to the Global Hunger Index (GHI). Some regions—in...
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, the design and evaluation of programs to improve complementary feeding practices cannot move forward. The present paper is …
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"This paper reviews issues highlighted in the literature on the performance of commonly found social safety net programs in developing countries. It makes particular reference to food subsidies (universal and administratively targeted), public works schemes, and targeted human capital subsidies....
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