expenditures in education, health, and infrastructure on economic growth, poverty, and income distribution in the past 20 years … comprehensive structural adjustment, which has attracted substantial foreign investment, are regarded as the pillars of this success …

differences in conditions: while the "education" component imposed conditions only on children of schooling age, the "health …. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer … families receiving the "education" transfer, which targeted 6-18 year-olds, perceived no benefit. In comparison with other …

private education and health systems has raised concerns about the future of an already fragmented social contract in Latin … America. In this chapter, we examine the evolution of the use of private education and private health insurance in selected … health insurance is much smaller than the share of households who opt for private education. For both policy domains, however …