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Uruguay : Income Transfer Policies in Uruguay, Closing the Gaps to Increase Welfare

World Bank - 2012

Uruguay's Government is currently analyzing several reform strategies for the social sectors. These include a health reform, the introduction of a new poverty alleviation program, possible changes in pensions and unemployment insurance, and also a tax reform, that impacts the income transfer...

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Global redistribution of income

Bourguignon, François - 2006

with extending this analysis of redistribution to other forms of international factor flows-more specifically, migrant …

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Decomposing changes in income inequality into vertical and horizontal redistribution and reranking, with applications to China and Vietnam

Wagstaff, Adam - 2005

devised to decompose the redistributive effect of a tax to analyze the extent to which vertical redistribution associated with … changing incomes over time is offset or reinforced by horizontal redistribution and re-ranking. He uses panel data from China … of horizontal redistribution and re-ranking in both China-and to a lesser extent Vietnam-more than offset pro …

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Distributional effects of crises : / the role of financial transfers

Halac, Marina - 2003

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Federative Republic of Brazil - Social Insurance and Labor Supply : Assessing Incentives and Redistribution

World Bank - 2013

system in terms of incentives and redistribution. It starts with an overview of institutional arrangements, programs, and … could 'correct' incentives by making redistribution more transparent and progressive. A behavioral life-cycle model …

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Elections, special interests, and the fiscal costs of financial crisis

Keefer, Philip - 2004

"Keefer proposes a new approach to explain why the costs of crisis are greater in some countries than in others. He begins with the premise that many crises result from the willingness of politicians to cater to special interests at the expense of broad social interests. A parsimonious model...

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Argentina : income support policies toward the bicentennial

2009

Argentina approaches its bicentennial as an independent republic and has a window of opportunity in social protection policy. Following the most serious economic crisis in its history during 2001-02, the country mobilized an effort to provide income support to the population in need. Now, as...

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The cash dividend : the rise of cash transfer programs in Sub-Saharan Africa

Garcia, Marito - 2012

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Long-term financial incentives and investment in daughters : evidence from conditional cash transfers in north India

Sinha, Nistha - 2009

"Since the early 1990s, several states in India have introduced financial incentive programs to discourage son preference among parents and encourage investment in daughters' education and health. This study evaluates one such program in the state of Haryana, Apni Beti Apna Dhan (Our Daughter,...

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Cash transfers, behavioral changes, and cognitive development in early childhood : evidence from a randomized experiment

Macours, Karen - 2008

"A variety of theories of skill formation suggest that investments in schooling and other dimensions of human capital will have lower returns if children do not have adequate levels of cognitive and social skills at an early age. This paper analyzes the impact of a randomized cash transfer...

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