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Educational assistance and education quality in Indonesia: The role of decentralization

Sari, Virgi - 2018

We examine the evolution of educational assistance in Indonesia, following two decades of government decentralization …, and its effect on education quality. Using Indonesia Family Life Survey data, we exploit as exogenous rule the variation … in the implementation of government decentralization to compute difference-in-difference estimators. Indicative evidence …

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Inequality trends and their determinants: Latin America over 1990 - 2010

Cornia, Giovanni Andrea - 2012

The paper reviews the steady and widespread decline in income inequality which has taken place in most of Latin America over 2002-10 and which - if continued for another 2-3 years - would reduce the average regional income inequality to pre-liberalization levels. The paper then focuses on the...

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Social spending and aggregate welfare in developing and transition economies

Gebregziabher, Fiseha; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2014

Notwithstanding the unprecedented attention devoted to reducing poverty and fostering human development via scaling up social sector spending, there is surprisingly little rigorous empirical work on the question of whether social spending is effective in achieving these goals. This paper...

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Fifty years of Asian experience in the spread of education and healthcare

Mundle, Sudipto - 2018

This paper analyses the dramatic spread of education and healthcare in Asia and also the large variations in that spread across and within countries over 50 years. Apart from differences in initial conditions and income levels, the nature of the state has also been an important determinant of...

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Can social assistance reduce violent conflict and civil unrest? Evidence from a large-scale public works programme in Ethiopia

Hirvonen, Kalle; Machado, Elia; Simons, Andrew M. - 2024

We assess how one of the largest public works programmes in the world-Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP)-affected violent conflict and civil unrest. Using difference-in-differences methods and linking administrative and geocoded conflict event data, we find that the PSNP did not...

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Graduation from cash transfer programmes: Insights from Tanzania

Muangi, Winnie C. - 2024

This working paper examines the prevalence of humanitarian crises in Tanzania, their role in perpetuating poverty cycles, and how poverty graduation programmes mitigate these effects by building the resilience of ultra-poor households. We utilize a mixed-methods approach, comprising desk...

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Can social pensions for the elderly mitigate shocks? Lessons from Mozambique

Almeida, Sara; Berkel, Hanna; Jones, Sam; Justino, Patricia - 2024

This study investigates the contribution of Mozambique's flagship social pension programme, the Programa de Subsídio Social Básico, to building resilience against shocks. Applying a fuzzy regression discontinuity approach to bespoke survey data, we separate direct effects of programme...

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Social transfer programmes and school enrolment in Malawi: A micro-simulation

Nanivazo, Malokele - 2013

This paper investigates the impact of social transfer programmes on school enrolment and child labour in Malawi utilizing a micro-simulation evaluation method. Four hypothetical cash transfer programmes, differentiated in terms of their conditions on children's enrolment and gender, are...

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Campaign externalities, programmatic spending, and voting preferences in rural Mexico: The case of Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera programme

Filipovich, Dragan; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Santillán … - 2018

This study presents an analysis of the electoral impacts of one of the most prominent conditional cash transfers in the world: Mexico's Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera (POP) programme. Using population censuses, and POP's administrative records and elections data, we exploit the targeting...

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The negotiated politics of social protection in sub-Saharan Africa

Hickey, Sam; Lavers, Tom; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; … - 2018

Social assistance programmes proliferated and expanded across much of the global South from the mid-1990s. Within Africa there has been enormous variation in this trend: some governments expanded coverage dramatically while others resisted this. The existing literature on social assistance, or...

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