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success of PROGRESA is due primarily to those in Mexico who developed, nurtured, and implemented the program, it also seems … spillover effects, both in Mexico and internationally, of the evaluation of PROGRESA on the culture of policy evaluation in … PROGRESA/Oportunidades anti-poverty and human resource program with its conditional cash transfers (CCT)—conditional on …
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"This paper uses panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi to examine the impacts of natural disasters on schooling investments, with a particular focus on the roles of ex-ante actions and ex-post responses. We find that the importance of ex-ante actions depends on disaster risks and the...
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average weight-for-age Z-scores among children, and a reduction in the proportion of girls stunted and the proportion of boys …
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This report assesses the impact of the International Food Policy Research Institute’s (IFPRI) Global Research Program on Priorities for Public Investment in Agriculture and Rural Areas (“GRP-3â€). Initiated in 1998, the stated objectives of the research program were (1) to...
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Research Institute's in-depth evaluation of Mexico's PROGRESA (Programa de Educación, Salud y Alimentación) indicates that … the Mexican government, IFPRI rigorously reviewed PROGRESA's impact on education, nutrition, health and rural poverty, as … in 506 localities in randomly assigned PROGRESA and non-PROGRESA areas. Formal surveys, structured and semi …
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Educación, Salud y Alimentación). PROGRESA provides cash transfers linked to children's enrollment and regular school attendance … paper contributes to this debate through an analysis of a Mexican antipoverty program called PROGRESA (the Programa de … and about one-ninth of all families in Mexico. We use a longitudinal sample of approximately 24,000 households from 506 …
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Educación, Salud y Alimentación). PROGRESA provides cash transfers linked to children's enrollment and regular school attendance … paper contributes to this debate through an analysis of a Mexican antipoverty program called PROGRESA (the Programa de … and about one-ninth of all families in Mexico. We use a longitudinal sample of approximately 24,000 households from 506 …
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enrollment), using data collected during the evaluation of Mexico's Programa de Educación, Salud, y Alimentación (PROGRESA) CCT … program. We exploit the fact that some PROGRESA beneficiaries who received transfers did not receive the forms needed to … monitor their children's attendance at school. We use a variety of techniques, including nearest neighbor matching and …
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