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Poverty traps and safety nets
Barrett, Christopher B. (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource], rev
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Addressing the needs of highly vulnerable households in Luzon during the Covid-19 lockdown
Ducanes, Geoffrey; Daway-Ducanes, Sarah Lynne; Tan, Edita A. - 2020
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Are the poor too poor to demand health insurance?
Ahuja, Rajeev (contributor);  … - 2004
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Welfare and poverty in Conakry : assessment and determinants
Del Ninno, Carlo - 1993
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Macro-Demographics and ageing in emerging asia : the case of Indonesia
Kudrna, George; Le, Trang; Piggott, John - 2021
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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 …
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Shooting a moving target : choosing targeting tools for social programs
Beuermann, Diether W.; Hoffmann, Bridget; Stampini, Marco; … - 2024
A key challenge for policymakers is how to design methods to select beneficiaries of social programs when income is volatile and the target population is dynamic. We evaluate a traditional static proxy-means test (PMT) and three policy-relevant alternatives. We use a unique panel dataset of a...
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How to best fight poverty : the uneven ex-post effects of conditional and unconditional cash transfers on labor earnings
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Quaranta, Roberto - 2022
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Assessing the effectiveness of social protection measures in mitigating COVID-19-related income shocks in the European Union
Gasior, Katrin; Jara, H. Xavier; Makovec, Mattia - 2023
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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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