This study investigates the impact of recent crises in Argentina (including the severe downturn of 2001-2002) on health …

inequality or stagnating poverty in Costa Rica. …

Despite increasing average real family incomes in Costa Rica in the late 1990s and early 2000s, poverty rates did not … fall. In this paper, we argue that during this period economic growth in Costa Rica did not translate into reduced poverty …-employed workers. These labor market phenomena, in turn, contributed to low incomes for households vulnerable to poverty, especially …

family long-term care (LTC) and female labor supply in four Latin American countries. Time-use survey data from Chile …

with little understanding of poverty among India's elderly or its determinants. This paper finds that households with … elderly members do not have higher poverty rates than non-elderly households. This result is robust under various measures … the relative poverty levels of the elderly. …

Despite increasing average real family incomes in Costa Rica in the late 1990s and early 2000s, poverty rates did not … fall. In this paper, we argue that during this period economic growth in Costa Rica did not translate into reduced poverty …-employed workers. These labor market phenomena, in turn, contributed to low incomes for households vulnerable to poverty, especially …

inequality or stagnating poverty in Costa Rica. …

In 2001-02, Argentina experienced a wrenching economic crisis. Plan Jefes, implemented in May 2002, was Argentina …'s institutional response to the increase in unemployment and poverty triggered by the crisis. The program provided a social safety net … damage individual employability and perpetuate poverty. Motivated by these concerns, this paper examines the effect of …

Returns to schooling in urban Argentina increased from 1992 to 2003, a period of economic reforms and macroeconomic …