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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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Privatisation methods and economic growth in transition economies
Bennett, John; Estrin, Saul; Maw, James W.; Urga, Giovanni - 2004
We investigate the impact of differences in privatisation method on national economic performance in transition economies. Our approach is to estimate, using dynamic panel data methods, a growth equation over 23 countries for the period 1990-2001. Among our results, we find that mass...
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The poverty-growth-inequality triangle
Bourguignon, François (contributor) - 2004
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The quest for pro-poor and inclusive growth : the role of governance
Doumbia, Djeneba - 2018
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Does local government size matter? : privatization and hybrid systems of local service delivery
Warner, Mildred - 2012
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Increasing the take-up of public health services : an experiment on nudges and digital tools in Uruguay
Cuesta, Ana; Delgado, Lucia; Gallegos, Sebastián; … - 2021
In this paper, we test whether promoting digital government tools increases the take-up of an important public health prevention service: cervical cancer screening. We implemented an at-scale field experiment in Uruguay, randomly encouraging women to make medical appointments with a digital...
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Non-contributory pensions
Galiani, Sebastián; Gertler, Paul J.; Bando Grana, … - 2014
poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) --a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural …
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Another brick on the wall : on the effects of non-contributory pensions on material and subjective well being
Bando Grana, Rosangela; Galiani, Sebastián; Gertler, … - 2021
living in poverty. Households with a beneficiary increased their level of consumption by 44 percent. The program improved …
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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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Fiscal policy, income redistribution, and poverty reduction in Latin America
Lustig, Nora; Martinez Pabon, Valentina; Pessino, Carola - 2023
This paper uses standard fiscal incidence analysis to study how much income redistribution and poverty reduction are … heterogeneity in the income inequality and poverty-reducing power of LAC fiscal systems. While all LAC fiscal systems reduce income … inequality, fiscal systems in nine LAC countries are poverty-increasing, and this startling characteristic has not improved over …
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