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The Effect of Conditional Transfers on School Performance and Child Labor: Evidence from an Ex-Post Impact Evaluation in Costa Rica
Duryea, Suzanne; Morrison, Andrew - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004
This study examines the impact of Superémonos, a conditional transfer program in Costa Rica, which provides poor families with a subsidy for the purchase of food conditional upon children regularly attending school. Using three different empirical techniques -simple comparison of mean outcomes,...
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Access, equity and performance: Education in Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago
Tsang, Mun C.; Fryer, Michelle; Arevalo, Gregorio - Inter-American Development Bank
-educated workforce with more employable skills. This book examines policy and public financing strategies for education in Barbados … strategic issues related to education financing and development performance. Based on an extensive review of sector and country …
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Honoring the Past, Building the Future: Fifty Years of Development in Latin America and the Caribbean Title: Celebrar el pasado, construir el futuro: Cincuenta años de desarrollo e...
Ávila, Ricardo - Inter-American Development Bank
Although science has unlocked the secrets of the human genome, the causes of social and economic development remain stubbornly enigmatic. Why do some countries adopt new technologies more readily than others? Why does income inequality persist in some regions--even in the face of rapid economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772319
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Beyond Reforms: Structural Dynamics and Macroeconomic Vulnerability
Vos, Rob; Frenkel, Roberto; Ocampo, José Antonio; … - Inter-American Development Bank
Beyond Reforms presents the contributions of some United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) analysts as well as research articles prepared for the Commission. It reviews long-term growth and development patterns and focuses on macroeconomic vulnerability and...
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Attaining Progress in Growth and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Japanese Funds at the Inter-American Development Bank
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2005
and the prevention of HIV/AIDS, projects to improve health, education, child welfare, and the environment, and projects to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010655264
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Attaining Progress in Growth and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Japanese Funds at the Inter-American Development Bank
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2005
and the prevention of HIV/AIDS, projects to improve health, education, child welfare, and the environment, and projects to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009193948
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Beyond Tradeoffs: Market Reform and Equitable Growth in Latin America
Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Birdsall, Nancy; Naím, Moisés; … - Inter-American Development Bank
Latin American experts demonstrate how market-friendly measures in key policy areas can promote greater equity and efficiency. By identifying win-win strategies, the authors challenge the conventional wisdom that there is always a tradeoff between these two objectives. This volume shows how...
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Sources of Growth in Latin America: What Is Missing?
Fernández-Arias, Eduardo; Blyde, Juan S.; Gill, Indermit S. - Inter-American Development Bank
The country studies and their background papers included in this book were prepared for the Latin America and the Caribbean section of the "Global Research Project: Explaining Growth" of the Global Development Network (GDN), a research effort conducted in association with the Latin American and...
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Pathways to Growth: Comparing East Asia and Latin America
Talvi, Ernesto; Serra, Pablo; Birdsall, Nancy; Pack, Howard - Inter-American Development Bank
The authors of this volume analyze the policies that led to East Asia's economic success, including those affecting human resources, savings, the financial sector, trade and institutions, and examine the lessons these policies carry for Latin America. The genesis of this book was an...
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Birth Registration and the Impact on Educational Attainment
Brito, Steve; Corbacho, Ana; Rivas, Rene Osorio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
world. Yet, nothing is known about the effect of birth registration on schooling outcomes. Birth registration is not only a … birth registration on education. Controlling for potential endogeneity and standard socioeconomic determinants of education …, this paper finds that children without documents of birth registration do not face lower chances of entering the schooling …
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