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Expanding Governance as Development : Evidence on Child Nutrition in the Philippines

Berman, Eli - 2016

effective markets, and where development assistance is dangerous - and might even induce violence. Expanding governance by … was not due to increased health and welfare expenditures, but instead to improved governance. Treatment effects are … an evidence-based discussion of governance expansion, an extensive margin of development …

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The Effect of Safety Net Programs on Food Insecurity

Schmidt, Lucie - 2013

Does the safety net reduce food insecurity in families? In this paper we investigate how the structure of benefits for five major safety net programs - TANF, SSI, EITC, food assistance, and Medicaid - affects low food security in families. We build a calculator for the years 2001-2009 to impute...

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Inside the War on Poverty : The Impact of Food Stamps on Birth Outcomes

Almond, Douglas - 2008

This paper evaluates the health impact of a signature initiative of the War on Poverty: the roll out of the modern Food Stamp Program (FSP) during the 1960s and early 1970s. Using variation in the month the FSP began operating in each U.S. county, we find that pregnancies exposed to the FSP...

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Food Stamps and America’s Poorest

Jolliffe, Dean - 2019

The paper provides the first assessment of: (i) America's progress in lifting the lower bound--the floor--of the distribution of real income; (ii) whether the country's largest antipoverty program, SNAP ("food stamps"), helped do so. An operational method of estimating the floor is implemented on...

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Means-tested transfer programs in the United States

Moffitt, Robert A. (contributor); Moffitt, Robert A. (ed.) - 2003

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Seeking a premier league economy : the economic effects of British economic reforms, 1980 - 2000 ; [the papers were presented at a preliminary conference and a final conference at the Centre for Economic Performance, London, UK]

Card, David E. (ed.); Blundell, Richard W. (contributor); … - 2004

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Growth Accelerations

Hausmann, Ricardo - 2004

Unlike most cross-country growth analyses, we focus on turning points in growth performance. We look for instances of rapid acceleration in economic growth that are sustained for at least eight years and identify more than 80 such episodes since the 1950s. Growth accelerations tend to be...

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Forecasting China's Economic Growth and Inflation

Higgins, Patrick - 2016

Although macroeconomic forecasting forms an integral part of the policymaking process, there has been a serious lack of rigorous and systematic research in the evaluation of out-of-sample model-based forecasts of China's real GDP growth and CPI inflation. This paper fills this research gap by...

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The 1991 Reforms, Indian Economic Growth, and Social Progress

Agarwal, Manmohan - 2013

This paper analyzes the effects of the reforms initiated in India following the balance of payments (BOP) crisis of 1991 on economic performance. We do not find persuasive the contention of many analysts that growth accelerated after the mid-1980s when reforms were initiated. Nor does...

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China and India : Reforms and the Response

Agarwal, Manmohan - 2013

The relative performance of China and India is compared using two different methods and they provide a very different picture of their relative performance. We compare the average absolute values of indictors for the decade of the 1980s, 1990s and the 2000s. We use indicators such as the current...

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