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Cash transfers, poverty, and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Stampini, Marco; Medellín, Nadin; Ibarrarán, Pablo - 2023
We assess the non-contributory cash transfer systems in 17 Latin American and Caribbean countries to identify factors that keep them from reducing poverty and inequality. To perform this assessment, we analyze three dimensions of size (number of beneficiaries, size of transfer per beneficiary,...
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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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The politics of poverty alleviation strategies in India
Vijayabaskar, M.; Balagopal, Gayathri - 2019
In 2004, following the election of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA), India began to introduce a … emergence of these two initiatives in India. This includes the political and civil society imperatives that shaped the design … constitute the poorest inhabitants of rural India, have disproportionately benefitted from the MGNREGA, weakening traditional …
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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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Non-contributory pensions
Galiani, Sebastián; Gertler, Paul J.; Bando Grana, … - 2014
The creation of non-contributory pension schemes is becoming increasingly common as countries struggle to reduce poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) --a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural adults over 70 years of age-- we evaluate the effects of...
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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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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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