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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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An Assessment of Institutional Capacity for Social Sector Reform in Argentina

World Bank - 2013

The study explores the interactive clash resulting from reforms, and institutional capacity at the provincial level, as the main element to explain current limitations, and to suggest recommendations conducive to further social reform. To understand the framework for past reforms, the study...

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Social protection in a crisis : Argentina's Plan Jefes y Jefas

Galasso, Emanuela - 2003

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From Social Funds to Local Governance and Social Inclusion Programs

World Bank - 2012

The role and relevance of Social Fund Community-Driven Development (SF/CDD) has been highly debated in the international development community. Some conceive these programs only as parallel and temporary arrangements that can ensure short-term delivery of development benefits. Others emphasize...

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Social Assistance Programs and Household Welfare in Eswatini : Study Brief

World Bank - 2021

This study brief on "Social Assistance Programs and Household Welfare in Eswatini" examines the performance of Eswatini's main social assistance programs. These programs employ varying combinations of categorical and self-targeting to reach the poor and vulnerable

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From Universal Price Subsidies to Modern Social Assistance : The Political Economy of Reform

World Bank - 2014

The efficiency and effectiveness of generalized subsidies as part of a safety net system are questionable. This is because generalized subsidies tend to create distortions in the food and fuel markets and are likely to be regressive and to suffer from significant leakage of benefits to the...

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Belarus - Social Assistance Policy Note : Improving Targeting Accuracy of Social Assistance Programs

World Bank - 2013

Belarus has a large and extensive social protection system (SP) covering a significant share of the population. Belarus has adopted a single methodology for calculating income to target Public Targeted Social Assistance (GASP). This methodology also is used when testing an applicant's...

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Globalization and innovation in emerging markets

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2009

find that competition has a negative effect on innovation, especially for firms further from the efficiency frontier, and … we do not find support for an inverted U effect of competition on innovation. The authors show that the supply chain of … multinational enterprises and international trade are important channels for domestic firms' innovation. They detect no evidence …

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Cash transfers, conditions, school enrollment, and child work : evidence from a randomized experiment in Ecuador

Schady, Norbert Rudiger - 2006

"The impact of cash transfer programs on the accumulation of human capital is a topic of great policy importance. An attendant question is whether program effects are larger when transfers are "conditioned" on certain behaviors, such as a requirement that households enroll their children in...

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Conditional cash transfers and the equity-efficiency debate

Das, Jishnu - 2004

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