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Taxation, infrastructure investment, growth, and poverty reduction: A case study of Zimbabwe
Lofgren, Hans; Cicowiez, Martín - 2022
In recent decades, Zimbabwe's development record has been disappointing. In the last few years, a severe drought and the Covid-19 pandemic have added to the country's development challenges. This paper is concerned with the long-run need to find a path toward faster growth in GDP, employment,...
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Tackling social exclusion: Evidence from Chile
Carneiro, Pedro; Galasso, Emanuela; Ginja, Rita - 2014
We study an innovative welfare program in Chile which combines a period of frequent home visits to households in extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity design, exploring the fact that program eligibility is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396722
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The Growth of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean: Did They Go Too Far?
Stampini, Marco; Tornarolli, Leopoldo - 2012
Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) are an endogenous innovation from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) that aims to reduce current poverty while developing the human capital of the next generation, in the attempt to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Pioneered in Brazil and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331378
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Should Cash Transfers Be Confined to the Poor? Implications for Poverty and Inequality in Latin America
Acosta, Pablo A.; Leite, Phillippe; Rigolini, Jamele - 2011
This paper compares for 13 Latin American countries the poverty and inequality impacts of cash transfer programs that are given to all children and the elderly (that is, categorical transfers), to programs of equal budget that are confined to the poor within each population group (that is,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331388
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Evaluating Social Protection Programs in Tajikistan
Son, Hyun H. - 2011
Following independence from the former Soviet Union, Tajikistan inherited an extensive social protection system that included a range of cash and noncash benefits. While the economy is well into its transition from a centrally planned to a market-oriented economy, its social welfare policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507330
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Tackling social exclusion: Evidence from Chile
Carneiro, Pedro; Galasso, Emanuela; Ginja, Rita - 2014
We study an innovative welfare program in Chile which combines a period of frequent home visits to households in extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity design, exploring the fact that program eligibility is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282645
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Welfare Programs and Labor Supply in Developing Countries. Experimental Evidence from Latin America
Alzúa, María Laura; Cruces, Guillermo; Ripani, Laura - 2010
This paper studies the effect of welfare programs on work incentives and the labor supply of adults in developing countries. The document builds on the experimental evaluations of three programs implemented in rural areas: Mexico’s PROGRESA, Nicaragua’s Red de Protección Social (RPS) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429298
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Market research concerning the consumption of fish and fishery products
Marin, Ancuţa - 2019
considered proper for consumption just 1 or 2 days. Fish and fish products must therefore be kept at low temperatures, being … vitamins and minerals. The fish is a healthy protein source with a special nutritional value, rich in essential nutrients …: proteins, amino acids, vitamins A, B6, B12, D, and Omega-3. Fish, especially fish from the sea, also contain phosphorus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290101
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Heterogeneous impacts of conditional cash transfers: evidence from Nicaragua
Dammert, Ana C. - 2008
In the last decade, the most popular policy tool used to increase human capital in developing countries has been the conditional cash transfer program. A large literature has shown significant mean impacts on schooling, health, and child labor. This paper examines heterogeneous effects using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268926
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On the design of education conditional cash transfer programs and non education outcomes: The case of teenage pregnancy
Cortés, Darwin; Gallego, Juan; Maldonado, Darío - 2011
We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern is with how the size and sign of the effect may depend on the design of the program. Using a simple model we show that an education CCT that conditions renewal on school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277415