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A minimum income guarantee amidst joblessness & vulnerability : a design for income transfers post-Covid 19 and beyond
Mehrotra, Santosh K.; Rajagopalan, Anjana; Kumar, … - 2020
Amidst the bleak picture of increasing joblessness and indebtedness presented by the National Sample Survey's employment surveys and debt surveys, a minimum standard of living for the nation's poor seems to be under threat. In response to this, recent schemes inspired by the Universal Basic...
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Pobreza, vulnerabilidad y la clase media en América Latina
Stampini, Marco; Robles, Marcos; Sáenz, Mayra; … - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011290939
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Cash transfers, poverty, and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Stampini, Marco; Medellín, Nadin; Ibarrarán, Pablo - 2023
that keep them from reducing poverty and inequality. To perform this assessment, we analyze three dimensions of size …: conditional cash transfers, non-contributory pensions, and other transfers. We use an international poverty line of 6.85 dollars … PPP per day (similar to the average national poverty line of upper middle-income countries) and adjust survey weights to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014545280
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Re-thinking social protection : from poverty alleviation to building resilience in middle-income households
Vera Cossío, Diego Alejandro; Hoffmann, Bridget; … - 2023
We exploit an expansion in social protection to middle-income households to provide evidence on how middle-income households cope with economic shocks and how to build their resilience. We use a regression discontinuity design around the eligibility cutoff for a program that delivered monthly...
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The macroeconomic dynamics of labor market policies
Hurst, Erik; Pastorino, Elena; Winberry, Thomas; Kehoe, … - 2023
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Higher inequality in Latin America : a collateral effect of the pandemic
Acevedo, Ivonne; Castellani, Francesca; Cota, María José - 2022
This study explores the evolution of inequality in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic using primary data available from household and employment surveys collected in 2020. Inequality increased on average by 2 percent between 2019 and 2020, twice the average annual growth in the...
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More schooling and more learning? : effects of a three-year conditional cash transfer program in Nicaragua after 10 years
Barham, Tania Catherine Jane; Macours, Karen; Maluccio, … - 2013
CCT programs have become the anti-poverty program of choice in many developing countries. Numerous evaluations, often …
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Long-term impacts of conditional cash transfers in Latin America : review of the evidence
Molina Millán, Teresa; Barham, Tania Catherine Jane; … - 2016
We review the literature on the long-term impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs in Latin America. Long-term impacts are defined as those that both: 1) are related to the accumulation of human capital, and; 2) are observed after beneficiary children have reached a later stage of the...
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Cash, conditions and child development : experimental evidence from a cash transfer in Honduras
López Bóo, Florencia; Creamer, John - 2018
We explore the effects of a randomly assigned conditional cash transfer in Honduras (Bono 10000) on early childhood development. We find significant impacts on cognitive development in children 0-60 months, with an average effect size of 0.13 SD. We show differential impacts by type of transfer:...
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Six years of Comunidades Solidarias Rurales : impacts on school entry of an ongoing conditional cash transfer program in El Salvador
Sanchez Chico, Ana; Macours, Karen; Maluccio, John A.; … - 2018
Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs are important anti-poverty programs in Latin America and the Caribbean. There …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011883459