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Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty assesses the efficacy of poverty reduction programs in Latin America, Africa …. Overall, the studies find that investments in agricultural research, infrastructure, and human capital are beneficial in the … safety net programs and a chapter devoted solely to the vexing poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, Public Expenditures, Growth …
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"Most investigations into the importance and determinants of adult cognitive skills assume that (1) they are produced primarily by schooling, and (2) schooling is statistically predetermined or exogenous. This study uses longitudinal data collected in Guatemala over 35 years to investigate...
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vulnerable to poverty, food insecurity, and threats to their children’s nutrition, health, and education, with irreversible …
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specific investments in education, health, and nutrition. The paper first describes PROGRESA/Oportunidades and estimates of the … of contributions to evolving conventional wisdom) on topics including food subsidy programs, nutrition, health, gender … whether it should be worked out. (3) Key persons in the development and implementation of PROGRESA, as well as most of those …
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of PROGRESA on education, health, and nutrition as well as in other areas, such as women's status and work incentives. …
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of PROGRESA on education, health, and nutrition as well as in other areas, such as women's status and work incentives. …
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with transportation infrastructure (externalities) implies spatial divergence. Empirical evidence on education and heath …
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vulnerable to poverty, food insecurity, and threats to their children’s nutrition, health, and education, with irreversible …
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vulnerable to poverty, food insecurity, and threats to their children’s nutrition, health, and education, with irreversible …
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