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Poverty maps are a useful tool for the targeting of social programs on areas with high concentrations of poverty …. However, a static focus on poverty ignores the temporal dimension of poverty. Thus, current nonpoor households still face … substantial welfare volatility and are at risk of becoming poor in the face of shocks. We combine the methods of poverty mapping …
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"Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs aim to alleviate poverty through monetary and in-kind benefits, as well as … reduce future levels of poverty by encouraging investments in education, health, and nutrition. The success of CCT programs … at reducing poverty depends on whether, and the extent to which, cash transfers affect adult work incentives. The authors …
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-kind and cash transfers in the poor rural areas of southern states of Mexico. The intent-to-treat effect on poverty of cash …
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Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs aim to alleviate poverty through monetary and in-kind benefits, as well as … reduce future levels of poverty by encouraging investments in education, health, and nutrition. The success of CCT programs … at reducing poverty depends on whether, and the extent to which, cash transfers affect adult work incentives. The authors …
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Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs aim to alleviate poverty through monetary and in-kind benefits, as well as … reduce future levels of poverty by encouraging investments in education, health, and nutrition. The success of CCT programs … at reducing poverty depends on whether, and the extent to which, cash transfers affect adult work incentives. The authors …
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poverty, by a substantial amount in some countries. Offsetting adjustments that could have blunted the impact of transfers … transfers to the poor if they are linked to efforts to overcome poverty in the long term, particularly when the efforts involve …
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Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes aim to alleviate poverty through monetary and in-kind benefits, as well as … reduce future incidence of poverty by encouraging investments in education, health and nutrition. The success of CCT … programmes at reducing poverty depends on whether, and the extent to which, cash transfers affect adult work incentives. In this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012561949
This paper combines remote-sensed data and individual child-, mother-, and household-level data from the Demographic and Health Surveys for five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) to design a prototype drought-contingent targeting framework that...
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