severe underweight; Figure 2.1g: Net enrolment in primary education; Figure 2.1h: Literacy of 15-24 age of year; Figure 2.1i …: Ratio of girls to boys in primary education; Figure 2.1j: Ratio of girls to boys in secondary education … Targeting; Figure 3.1: Targeting poverty alleviation transfer; Measuring Targeting Performance …

regularly. Confronted with rising poverty after the economic crisis of 1995, the Mexican government progressively changed its … poverty reduction strategy, ending universal tortilla subsidies and instead funding new investment in human capital through …

schools; (5) Parents using faith-inspired schools place a stronger emphasis on religious education and moral values; and (6 …

and in the south, and in some cases (for example, for poverty) we estimate how much additional progress is likely to be … basic services would help in improving outcomes in the south, with a focus on health and education. Finally, we discuss the … existing evidence on the impact that programs such as the Education, Health, and Nutrition Program (Programa de Educación …

This paper analyzes the evolution of poverty in Latin America. In 1998, about a third of the population was poor, and … one sixth extreme poor. This represents 179 million poor people, of which 89 million lived in extreme poverty. The share …

This paper provides a new definition of 'time poverty' as working long hours and having no choice to do otherwise. An … individual is time poor if he/she is working long hours and is also monetary poor, or would fall into monetary poverty if he …/she were to reduce his/her working hours below a given time poverty line. Thus being time poor results from the combination of …