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Scholars Who Became Practitioners - Working Paper 263
Lustig, Nora - 2011
Celebrated by academics, multilateral organizations, policymakers and the media, Mexico’s Progresa/Oportunidades conditional cash transfers program (CCT) is constantly used as a model of a successful antipoverty program. This paper argues that the transformation of well-trained scholars into...
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Multidimensional Indices of Achievements and Poverty: What Do We Gain and What Do We Lose? - Working Paper 262
Lustig, Nora - 2011
Poverty and well-being are multidimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements go beyond income. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of poverty and well-being can be aggregated into a single, multidimensional index in a meaningful way. Is...
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Comparing the Incidence of Taxes and Social Spending in Brazil and the United States - Working Paper 360
Higgins, Sean; Lustig, Nora; Ruble, Whitney; Smeeding, … - 2014
-off households in Brazil opting out of public services due to quality concerns rather than a result of government effort to make …We perform the first comprehensive fiscal incidence analyses in Brazil and the US, including direct cash and food … in Brazil and the fact that Brazil’s highly progressive cash and food transfer programs are small while larger transfer …
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