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growth and poverty reduction in Niger. …The authors apply the dynamic macroeconomic framework developed by Ag??nor, Bayraktar, and El Aynaoui (2004) to Niger … authors assess the impact of policy shocks on poverty by using partial growth elasticities. They perform various policy …
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Who benefits from public spending? Who bears the burden of taxation? How desirable is the distribution of net benefits from the operation of a tax-benefit system? This paper surveys basic concepts, methods, and modeling approaches commonly used to address these issues in the context of fiscal...
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incidence analysis suggests that increased spending on social assistance enhances the probability of moving out of poverty and … reduces the probability of moving into poverty. However, double difference estimates (based on a mimicked randomized … household welfare or reduce poverty. Double difference estimates point to a negative impact on welfare. Parametric estimates do …
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short and medium-term poverty and welfare effects of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Triple difference …
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poverty rate of 2030 modifying Ravallion (2013)'s approach in that it introduces country-specific economic and population … obstacles to meeting the target and proposes a simple intermediate growth target under which the global poverty rate can be … not enough and sharing prosperity within and across countries is essential to end extreme poverty in one generation. …
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The author critically reviews the methods available for the ex-post counterfactual analysis of programs that are assigned exclusively to individuals, households, or locations. The discussion covers both experimental and non-experimental methods (including propensity-score matching, discontinuity...
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PROGRESA poverty alleviation program to examine the performance of a quasi-experimental estimator, the Regression Discontinuity …
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stimulation to stunted Jamaican toddlers living in poverty. The intervention consisted of one-hour weekly visits from community …
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As part of the recent health reform effort, the government of Georgia launched a Medical Assistance Program in June 2006 to provide health insurance to its poor population. So far the program covers slightly over 50 percent of the poor and provides benefit coverage for outpatient and inpatient...
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United States, OECD-Europe) are more likely to receive international remittances, and that while the level of poverty in a … receive remittances, these resource flows do tend to reduce the level and depth of poverty. At the household level, a review …
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