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This report represents a snapshot of a dialogue between the State of Piaui and the World Bank and focuses on the strategies and actions the State Government may wish to adopt. Piaui's challenge is to build institutions that address its weaknesses and exploit its strengths. Addressing weaknesses...
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"This paper uses a new, 2005/06 nationally-representative household survey to analyze the impact of internal …
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"The author uses a large, nationally representative household survey to analyze the impact of internal remittances …, as opposed to internal, remittances are included in household income, and when poverty is measured by the more sensitive … international remittances in household expenditure (income) reduces the severity of poverty by 34.8 percent, while including …
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"The author uses a large household data set from Guatemala to analyze how the receipt of internal remittances (from …
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"The relationship between wealth and child labor has been widely examined. This paper uses three rounds of time …-series, cross-sectional data to examine the relationship between wealth and child labor and schooling. The paper finds that wealth … enrollment for rural girls from 1998 to 2006. This increase is independent of wealth (measured by per capita expenditure …
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This chapter introduces the main issues associated with population aging, many of which will be investigated in detail throughout the volume. The next section describes the demographic transformation that Brazil has been experiencing and highlights its specific features, including a very rapid...
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