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Agricultural research, livelihoods, and poverty: Studies of economic and social impacts in six countries
Adato, Michelle (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Those who study global poverty and ways to reduce it face a perennial set of questions: Do advances in knowledge, research, and technology make a real difference in the lives of poor people? What effect does research have on the poor? Who benefits? The contributors to Agricultural Research,...
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Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America
Adato, Michelle (contributor); Hoddinott, John (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
from case studies of CCTs in Brazil, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua. The studies examine many aspects of CCTs, including …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752681
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Targeting the poor in Mexico
Skoufias, Emmanuel; de la Vega, Sergio; Davis, Benjamin - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001
This report reevaluates PROGRESA's targeting methods since the program began adding beneficiary households through a process called “densification.” The authors first evaluate PROGRESA's accuracy in targeting both at the community and household levels. Second, they evaluate the targeting in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997147
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On the targeting and redistributive efficiencies of alternative transfer instruments
Coady, David P.; Skoufias, Emmanuel - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001
The paper shows how the so-called distributional characteristic of a policy instrument can be additively decomposed into two components; one that captures the targeting efficiency of the instrument, the other its redistributive efficiency. Using these measures, the paper provides an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997187
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Poverty, inequality, and spillover in Mexico's education, health, and nutrition program
Handa, Sudhanshu; Huerta, Mari-Carmen; Perez, Raul; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997223
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Targeting the poor in Mexico
Skoufias, Emmanuel; de la Vega, Sergio; Davis, Benjamin - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001
This report reevaluates PROGRESA's targeting methods since the program began adding beneficiary households through a process called “densification.” The authors first evaluate PROGRESA's accuracy in targeting both at the community and household levels. Second, they evaluate the targeting in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997313
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On the targeting and redistributive efficiencies of alternative transfer instruments
Coady, David P.; Skoufias, Emmanuel - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001
The paper shows how the so-called distributional characteristic of a policy instrument can be additively decomposed into two components; one that captures the targeting efficiency of the instrument, the other its redistributive efficiency. Using these measures, the paper provides an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997376
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Poverty, inequality, and spillover in Mexico's education, health, and nutrition program
Handa, Sudhanshu; Huerta, Mari-Carmen; Perez, Raul; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037823
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Small countries and the case for regionalism vs. multilateralism
Burfisher, Mary E.; Robinson, Sherman; Thierfelder, Karen - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2000
pressures for domestic policy reforms. We analyze the case of a small country, Mexico, forming an RTA with two larger countries …, the U.S. and Canada, in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Mexico exhibits all three characteristics of a … in place. Mexico gains from NAFTA only when it also removes domestic distortions in agriculture. Then, agriculture can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038222
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The Economic Consequences of Excess Men: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan:
Chang, Simon; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
As sex ratio imbalances have become a problem in an increasing number of countries, it is important to understand their consequences. With the defeat of the Kuomintang Party in China, more than one million soldiers and civilians, mainly young males, retreated to Taiwan in the late 1940s....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850574