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Evaluating the impact of government programs on social welfare : the role of targeting and the allocation rules among program beneficiaries

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Mobility, inequality, and horizontal equity

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Mexico's PROGRESA : Innovative Targeting, Gender Focus and Impact on Social Welfare

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PROGRESA (Programa de Educacion, Salud y Alimentacion) is an innovative Mexican program that provides cash transfers to poor rural households, on condition that their children attend school and their family visits local health centers regularly. Confronted with rising poverty after the economic...

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THE IMPACT OF PUBLIC TRANSFERS ON INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL WELFARE: COMPARING MEXICO’S PROGRESA

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Confronted with rising poverty after an economic crisis in 1995, the Government of Mexico changed its social policy. It terminated universal subsidies for tortilla and funded new investments in human capital through PROGRESA, an innovative program providing school stipends to poor children as...

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