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Programas sociales en Argentina y bienestar: Impacto de la moratoria previsional y de la AUH
D Elia, Vanesa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This paper provides empirical evidence on the impact on the welfare of the most important social programs implemented in the last decade in Argentina: the Inclusion Pension Plan and the Universal Child Allowance (UCA), and discusses which of these redistributive instruments presents the highest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274384
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Program evaluation of agricultural input subsidies in Malawi using treatment effects: Methods and practicability based on propensity scores
Chirwa, Themba G. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Several evaluations have been conducted to assess the impact of agricultural input subsidies in Malawi but have been mostly either descriptive or qualitatively inferred of the intervention impacts on the overall goal of the subsidy program. In most studies cited in this paper their approaches do...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008541484
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Equità e criteri di selettività dei beneficiari di edilizia residenziale pubblica in Emilia-Romagna
Tondani, Davide - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Housing public policies take the form of selective programs. Hence, accesso to the program and computation of the rents are regulated by a means test. Selectivity should be set ensuring the respect of vertical and horizontal equity trough the beneficiaries. This research analyses the system of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619763
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Assessing the Impact of Poverty Reduction Programs in Vietnam
Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
This paper aims to examine the poverty targeting and impacts of three poverty reeducation programs including programs ‘exemption of educational fees’, ‘provision with health care insurance’, and ‘micro-credit for the poor’ in Vietnam. It is found that the three programs have reached...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685139
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Does poverty relief spending reduce crime? Evidence from Argentina
Meloni, Osvaldo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
A large body of empirical research suggests that welfare spending reduces crime. Contrary to this dominant finding, a … few recent studies conclude that there is no relationship between several measures of welfare spending and serious crime … total crime although the effect was rather weak. The analyses of various types of crime show that the influence of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260727
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A Note on DD Approach
Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This paper attempts to assess the impact of treatment effect or programme applying difference in difference (DD) approach. This study also identifies that the DD estimators are biased under certain conditions.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271302
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Cost overruns and demand shortfalls – deception or selection?
Eliasson, Jonas; Fosgerau, Mogens - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
examples also indicate that benefit-cost ratios remains a useful selection criterion even when cost and benefits are highly … uncertain, gainsaying the argument that such uncertainties render cost-benefit analyses useless. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258650
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Do the Poorest Ethnic Minorities Benefit from a Large-Scale Poverty Reduction Program? Evidence from Vietnam
Nguyen, Cuong; Phung, Tung; Westbrook, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
To increase the opportunities for poor ethnic minorities to benefit from economic growth the government of Vietnam implemented one of the biggest poverty reduction programs entitled ‘Socio-economic Development for the Communes Facing Greatest Hardships in the Ethnic Minority and Mountainous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258878
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Impact of Alternative & Innovative Education Programmes: A Study of Bridge Course Centres in Bardhaman District
Hati, Koushik Kumar; Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Education is the basic requirement and the ‘Fundamental Right’ of the citizens of a nation. Elementary Education system also serves as the base over which the super-structure of the whole knowledge system is built up. This calls for bringing all children under coverage of Elementary...
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Speaking the Same Language within the International Organizations; A Proposal for an Enhanced Evaluation Approach to Measure and Compare Success of International Organizations
Farmanesh, Amir; Ortiz Bobea, Ariel; Sarwar, Jisha; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
It is currently difficult for Member States to assess and compare the success or performance of UN organizations despite recent movements towards results-based approaches. Efforts in the implementation of logical frameworks have been too independent and uncoordinated and left at the discretion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005014720