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Robust estimates of changes in poverty and inequality in post-independence Namibia
Levine, Sebastian; Roberts, Benjamin - 2012
1990 and the effects on poverty. To produce comparability between two household surveys, they use survey matching … significant decrease in the poverty headcount over the period and small but insignificant decreases in the country's extremely … high levels of inequality. Decomposition analysis shows that poverty reduction in Namibia is largely driven by growth in …
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Health insurance for the poor in India
Ahuja, Rajeev - 2004
Community based health insurance (CBHI) is more suited than alternate arrangements to providing health insurance to the low-income people living in developing countries. The universal health insurance scheme, launched recently by the Prime Minister of India, is only one of the forms that CBHI...
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Tackling social exclusion: Evidence from Chile
Carneiro, Pedro; Galasso, Emanuela; Ginja, Rita - 2014
extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity …
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The Poverty-growth-inequality triangle
Bourguignon, François - 2004
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Health Insurance for the poor in India: An analytical study
Ahuja, Rajeev - 2005
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The US earned income tax credit, its effects, and possible reforms
Meyer, Bruce D. - 2008
of recipients. I then discuss empirical work on the effects of the EITC on poverty and income distribution, and its …
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Welfare reform: The US experience
Moffitt, Robert - 2008
positive average effects on employment, earnings, and income, and generally negative effects on poverty rates, although the …
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The role of gender inequalities in explaining income growth, poverty and inequality: Evidence from Latin American countries
Costa, Joana; Silva, Elydia; Vaz, Fábio - 2009
economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight … poverty and inequality. …
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Privatisation and renationalisation: What went wrong in Bolivia's water sector?
Hailu, Degol; Osório, Rafael Guerreiro; Tsukada, Raquel - 2009
This paper investigates the concentration of access to safe water across income levels in Bolivia. In particular, it focuses on how privatisation has changed coverage, affordability and the concentration of access to water on the part of the poor. We compare the performance of cities in which...
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Using pseudo-panels to measure income mobility in Latin America
Cuesta, Jose; Ñopo, Hugo; Pizzolitto, Georgina - 2007
traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and, to a …
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