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How Useful Are Benefit Incidence Analyses of Public Education and Health Spending
Tiongson, Erwin; Davoodi, Hamid Reza; Asawanuchit, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
This paper provides a primer on benefit incidence analysis (BIA) for macroeconomists and a new data set on the benefit incidence of education and health spending covering 56 countries over 1960-2000, representing a significant improvement in quality and coverage over existing compilations. The...
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Reprioritizing Government Spending on Health: Pushing an Elephant Up the Stairs?
Tandon, Ajay; Fleisher, Lisa; Li, Rong; Yap, Wei Aun - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Countries vary widely with respect to the share of government spending on health, a metric that can serve as a proxy for the extent to which health is prioritized by governments. World Health Organization (WHO) data estimate that, in 2011, health's share of aggregate government expenditure in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010754596
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Time Discounting and Credit Market Access in a Large Scale Cash Transfer Program
Handa, Sudhanshu; Martorano, Bruno; Halpern, Carolyn; … - Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa, … - 2014
behavior and the environment. In this article we provide evidence on whether a national poverty alleviation program in Kenya …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930312
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Cash Transfers for Vulnerable Children in Kenya: From Political Choice to Scale Up
Alviar, Carlos Alviar and Roger Pearson; Pearson, Roger - UNICEF,Division of Policy and Practice - 2009
During the course of the Kenya 2002 parliamentary elections, UNICEF launched a media campaign advocating for the … change made by the incoming Government of Kenya, within days of taking power, was to make primary school free. The Government … applying lessons for future scale-up. The test areas in three very different parts of Kenya – poor urban, pastoralist, and low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278261
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Pre-crisis Conditions and Government Policy Responses: Chile and Mexico during the Great Recession
Martorano, Bruno - 2014
Chile and Mexico reacted to the crisis by implementing several policy responses, they achieved different outcomes. In particular, the Chilean economy recovered faster than the Mexican one. However, the main differences are related to social outcomes. On one hand, the Gini coefficient decreased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272363
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Social protection and cash transfers to strengthen familes affected by HIV and AIDS:
Adato, Michelle; Bassett, Lucy - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
As HIV and AIDS simultaneously undermine livelihoods and household and community safety nets, families are especially vulnerable to poverty, food insecurity, and threats to their children’s nutrition, health, and education, with irreversible consequences. With more than 33.3 million people...
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Must conditional cash transfer programs be conditioned to be effective?: The impact of conditioning transfers on school enrollment in Mexico
de Brauw, Alan; Hoddinott, John - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"A growing body of evidence suggests that conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs can have strong, positive effects on a range of welfare indicators for poor households in developing countries. However, the contribution of individual program components toward achieving these outcomes is not...
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Social protection: Opportunities for Africa
Adato, Michelle; Hoddinott, John - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"Social protection involves policies and programs that protect people against risk and vulnerability, mitigate the impacts of shocks, and support people who suffer from chronic incapacities to secure basic livelihoods. It can also build assets, reducing both short-term and intergenerational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038290
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Acceptability of conditions in a community-led cash transfer programme for orphaned and vulnerable children in Zimbabwe
Skovdal, Morten; Robertson, Laura; Mushati, Phyllis; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
Evidence suggests that a regular and reliable transfer of cash to households with orphaned and vulnerable children has a strong and positive effect on child outcomes. However, conditional cash transfers are considered by some as particularly intrusive and the question on whether or not to apply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745135
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Can transfer programs be made more nutrition sensitive?:
Alderman, Harold - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
Malnutrition can best be addressed by a combination of nutrition specific interventions and nutrition sensitive programs, including social protection. This study reviews mechanisms of transfer program in order to better design nutrition sensitive social protection. Social protection programs...
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