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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 effect of the US biofuels mandate on poverty in India
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; Ural … - 2016
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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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Cash transfers, poverty, and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Stampini, Marco; Medellín, Nadin; Ibarrarán, Pablo - 2023
: conditional cash transfers, non-contributory pensions, and other transfers. We use an international poverty line of 6.85 dollars … that keep them from reducing poverty and inequality. To perform this assessment, we analyze three dimensions of size … 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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Cash transfers, poverty, and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Stampini, Marco; Medellín, Nadin; Ibarrarán, Pablo - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014428337
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Food for fuel : the effect of the U.S. biofuel mandate on poverty in India
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Helene; Ural … - 2015
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Labour regulations in India : improving the social security framework
Hoda, Anwarul; Rai, Durgesh K. - 2017
An important segment of labour regulations concerns the protection aspects of social security. These regulations provide safety nets or fall back mechanisms to enable workers to cope with crises that affect households from time to time, such as illness, employment injury, death or old age. This...
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