poverty and child poverty estimates in five middle-income countries (India, Mexico, South Africa, Russian Federation and Peru …There is a wide agreement among poverty research community that conventional estimates of poverty (i.e., money …-metric measures) do not take into account out of pocket payments of health care. Significant household health spending would …

. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer … differences in conditions: while the "education" component imposed conditions only on children of schooling age, the "health …" transfer required regular health checkups of 0-5 year old children. The "health" transfer families were more likely to attend …

. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer … differences in conditions: while the "education" component imposed conditions only on children of schooling age, the "health …" transfer required regular health checkups of 0-5 year old children. The "health" transfer families were more likely to attend …

This paper considers the impact of Programa de Educacion, Salud y Alimentacion (PROGRESA), a large Mexican rural anti-poverty … PROGRESA had no or even a negative impact on child nutrition. However, not all children designated to receive nutritional … effect of the nutritional supplements on children 12-36 months. They imply an increase of about a sixth in mean growth per …