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poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) --a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural …
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living in poverty. Households with a beneficiary increased their level of consumption by 44 percent. The program improved …
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Community based health insurance (CBHI) is more suited than alternate arrangements to providing health insurance to the low-income people living in developing countries. The universal health insurance scheme, launched recently by the Prime Minister of India, is only one of the forms that CBHI...
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This paper examines how changes in Medicaid physician payments affect provision of care to the poor. I find that when payments increase, Medicaid participation increases, but time spent treating the uninsured falls. I additionally show that payment increases result in greater Medicaid...
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living in poverty. Households with a beneficiary increased their level of consumption by 44 percent. The program improved …
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Through the application of poverty transition analysis for years 2006-2010, the paper found that between 27% and 32% of … sustainable not poor (Tnn). In turn, between 12% and 15% could be considered entering poverty in a downward mobility phase (Tnp …), and between 10% and 12% could be considered leaving poverty in an upward mobility phase (Tpn). Populations in Tpp and Tnp …
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The Brazilian Northeast is a region characterized by high levels of poverty and inequality. These aspects hinder its … poverty, infant mortality, and birth outcomes in the Brazilian Northeast region. Using a difference-in-differences approach … robust to heterogenous treatment effects, we find that the program led to a significant reduction in poverty and infant …
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beneficiary population by studying the Pension 65 program in Peru, which uses a poverty eligibility threshold. We find that the …
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beneficiary population by studying the Pension 65 program in Peru, which uses a poverty eligibility threshold. We find that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012935113
poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) -- a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034652