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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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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 …

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Policy diffusion, domestic politics and social assistance in Lesotho, 1998-2012

Granvik, Maria - 2016

Lesotho is a small Southern African country that has introduced two national cash transfer programmes, the Old Age Pension and the Child Grant Programme. Although Lesotho has followed what has been called the 'Southern African model', the introduction of the Old Age Pension was not the result of...

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The politics of promoting social protection in Zambia

Pruce, Kate; Hickey, Sam - 2016

This paper examines the rise of the social protection agenda in Zambia, and demonstrates that this has two alternative drivers: shifting dynamics within Zambia's political settlement and the promotional efforts of a transnational policy coalition. We compare the cases of social cash transfers...

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Poverty, changing political regimes, and social cash transfers in Zimbabwe, 1980 - 2016

Chinyoka, Isaac - 2017

Since 2000, Zimbabwe has been under some pressure to provide more fully for its children. It is not clear whether child poverty has worsened, although AIDS, drought, and economic mismanagement have all compromised poverty reduction. In any case, child poverty has come under increased scrutiny,...

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Building a conservative welfare state in Botswana

Seekings, Jeremy - 2017

Botswana's welfare state is both a parsimonious laggard in comparison with some other middle-income countries in Africa (such as Mauritius and South Africa) and extensive (in comparison with its low-income neighbours to the north and east). Coverage is broad but cash transfers are modest. This...

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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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