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Hacia nuevas políticas sociales en América Latina : crecimiento, clases medias y derechos sociales
Solimano, Andrés - In: Revista CEPAL (2005) 87, pp. 45-60
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El estado y la pobreza en Costa Rica
Taylor-Dormond, Marvin - In: Revista CEPAL (1991), pp. 133-150
El liberalismo vigente en America Latina puede inducir a confiar a la mano invisible del mercado la tarea redistributiva. En el presente articulo se intenta contribuir al acervo de conocimientos sobre el papel del estado en materia de transferencia de recursos y atencion a los pobres en Costa...
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Crecimiento, justicia distributiva y política social
Solimano, Andrés - In: Revista CEPAL (1998), pp. 31-44
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Distribucion del ingreso, pobreza y gasto social en America Latina
Ocampo Gaviria, José Antonio - In: Revista CEPAL (1998), pp. 7-14
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Naturaleza y selectividad de la política social
Sojo, Ana - In: Revista CEPAL (1990), pp. 183-199
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Inequality in India Declined During COVID
Gupta, Arpit; Malani, Anup; Woda, Bartosz - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
incidence of economic harms during the COVID pandemic. We observe a sharp spike in poverty, peaking during India's sharp but …
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The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the Urban Poor
Bessone, Pedro - 2020
This paper measures sleep among the urban poor in India and estimates the economic returns to increased sleep. Adults in Chennai have strikingly low quantity and quality of sleep relative to typical guidelines: despite spending 8 hours in bed, they achieve only 5.6 hours per night of sleep, with...
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Can Microfinance Unlock a Poverty Trap for Some Entrepreneurs?
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2019
Can microcredit help unlock a poverty trap for some people by putting their businesses on a different trajectory? Could … facilitate escape from a poverty trap …
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Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2007
This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...
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Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments : Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform
Edmonds, Eric V. - 2007
a failure to follow the national trend in poverty reduction. Schooling costs appear to play a large role in this … relationship between poverty, schooling, and child labor. Extrapolating from our results, our estimates imply that roughly half of … India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be explained by falling poverty and …
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