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Social Protection, Poverty and the Post-2015 Agenda

Fiszbein, Ariel; Kanbur, Ravi; Yemtsov, Ruslan - 2013

Social protection is absent from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and only recently has gained some prominence in the post-2015 discourse. In the past quarter century, however, rising inequality has often accompanied economic growth. At the same time, the growing importance of risk and...

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The Unfairness of (Poverty) Targets

Allwine, Melanie; Rigolini, Jamele; L??pez-Calva, Luis F. - 2013

Adopted on September 8, 2000, the United Nations Millennium Declaration stated as its first goal that countries "...[further] resolve to halve, by the year 2015, the proportion of the world's people whose income is less than one dollar a day and the proportion of people who suffer from...

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Reaching the Millennium Development Goals : Mauritania Should Care

Magnoli Bocchi, Alessandro; Pontara, Nicola; Fall, Khayar - 2012

Mauritania is a resource-rich developing country. As many other African nations, it will not reach most of the Millennium Development Goals, unless the authorities commit to accelerating progress. To succeed by 2015, the government needs to: mobilize additional financial resources, introduce...

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Child Schooling and Child Work in the Presence of a Partial Education Subsidy

Friedman, Jed; Kandpal, Eeshani; Rosati, Furio Camillo; … - 2017

Philippines, the analysis finds that some children, who were in neither school nor work before the program, increased …

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Doha Scenarios, Trade Reforms, and Poverty in the Philippines : A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis

Cororaton, Caesar B.; Cockburn, John; Corong, Erwin - 2012

Since the early 1980s the Philippines has undertaken substantial trade reform. The current Doha Round of World Trade … households in the wake of falling world prices and demand for the Philippines' agricultural exports. The authors find that the … poverty, especially in rural areas and among the unemployed, self-employed, and rural low-educated. The Philippines is found …

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The Role of Information and Cash Transfers on Early Childhood Development : Evidence from Nepal

Acharya, Gayatri; Bharadwaj, Prashant; Levere, Michael - 2016

Although substantial progress has been made in combating malnutrition at the global level, chronic maternal and child malnutrition remains a serious problem in many parts of the developing world. This paper, using a randomized control trial design in Nepal, evaluates a program that provided...

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Poor Households' Productive Investments of Cash Transfers : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Niger

Mills, Bradford F.; Premand, Patrick; Stoeffler, Quentin - 2016

Cash transfer programs have spread rapidly as an instrument to raise household consumption and reduce poverty. Questions remain about the sustainability of cash transfer impacts in low-income settings such as Sub-Saharan Africa and, in particular, on whether cash transfers can foster productive...

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The Distributional Impact of Taxes and Transfers in Poland

Goraus-Tanska, Karolina; Inchauste, Gabriela - 2016

This paper assesses the impact of fiscal policy on the incidence, depth, and severity of poverty, and examines whether there is room for an increased role for fiscal policy in improving the wellbeing of the poor. The results show that the combined effect of taxes and social spending helped...

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Unconditional Cash Transfers in China : An Analysis of the Rural Minimum Living Standard Guarantee Program

Golan, Jennifer; Sicular, Terry; Umapathi, Nithin - 2015

This paper examines China’s rural minimum living standard guarantee (dibao) program, one of the largest minimum income cash transfer schemes in the world. Using household survey data matched with published administrative data, the paper describes the dibao program, estimates the program’s...

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Living on the Edge : Vulnerability to Poverty and Public Transfers in Mexico

Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo; Rodriguez Castelan, Carlos; De … - 2015

Social policy in Mexico has focused on identifying and supporting chronically poor households. Yet, Mexico has a significant number of households that are just above the poverty line who are not eligible, by definition, for antipoverty programs and are at risk of falling back into poverty in the...

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