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This paper discusses the rationale as well as the challenges involved when constructing gender-related indicators of well-being. It argues that such indicators are critically important but that their construction involves a number of conceptual and measurement problems. Among the conceptual...
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Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) provide income to the poor in an effort to improve current welfare and promote investment in human and social capital to prevent future deprivation. So far, the impact evaluation literature has focused on estimating current effects on outcomes such as school...
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Este trabajo realiza un estudio comparativo del impacto de las remesas y la migración internacional sobre la pobreza y la desigualdad en cuatro países latinoamericanos con importantes procesos migratorios (Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras y Nicaragua). A partir de encuestas de hogares se estiman...
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health and education government spending on income inequality in the European Union over the 2002-2015 period. In this …
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roles of health and education. We provide empirical evidence for Germany. …Closely following recent innovations in the literature on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, this paper …
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using household indicators on expenditures, educational level, health status and land holdings. The purpose is to assess …
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changes in the opportunities for health care and education in the Philippines from 1998 to 2007. …
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/urban groups. While there has been an improvement in horizontal inequality in education, this paper shows little change in other … welfare indicators, in particular poverty. We also found that horizontal inequality does matter for poverty reduction in Viet … Nam and it needs more attention when designing poverty policies in the future. …
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-discrimination measures in education. An analysis of trends in inequalities in human development is used to identify three countries that have … education has been taken up politically. …
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This paper compares the extent and the nature of the higher prevalence of poverty among disadvantaged ethnic groups in …, and analyze the magnitude of the ethnic gap in absolute and relative poverty levels across six countries and different … poverty. We compare the actual differential in poverty with the gap that remains after disadvantaged ethnic groups are given …
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