This study investigates the impact of recent crises in Argentina (including the severe downturn of 2001-2002) on health …

poverty level, and the health of the population including total health expenditures and the prevalence of HIV/AIDS. The …

Between 2003 and 2009, Argentina's social spending as a share of GDP increased by 7.6 percentage points. Marginal … disposable income inequality and poverty rose markedly between 2006 and 2009 primarily due to the launching of a noncontributory …

perpetuating poverty and poor health in less-developed countries. …

Argentina hit headlines around the world in 2002 on account of the largest debt default in history and a sudden … consequences of the crisis that are not so obvious but that may linger for decades. Combining macroeconomic indicators with the … Argentine national registry of live births (approximately 1.9 million from 2001 through 2003), we show that the crisis led to an …

Argentina hit world news headlines in 2002 due to the largest debt-default in history and a sudden economic collapse … reminiscent of economic statistics from the Great Depression. In this article, we focus on other consequences of the crisis that … registry of live births, approximately 1.9 million live births occurring between 2001 and 2003, we show that the crisis led to …

The aim of this paper is to analyze the existence of poverty traps in Argentina. In order to do it so, the income … overcome econometric challenges involved in testing for the presence of poverty traps: lack of long duration panels, attrition …, and measurement error in income. The results do find no evidence for the existence of poverty traps due to nonlinearities …