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 …

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 …

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 …

As the Chilean government seeks to reduce both poverty and inequality through cash transfers to poor households, local … evidence that cash transfers had highly variable impacts on poverty and inequality at the county level in 2002. In particular … considerable reductions in poverty and inequality. In addition, the strength of the governing mandate weakly influences the …

nature and limited impact of Chile Solidario, followed by a discussion of poverty and vulnerability in Chile, and the Ethical … Wage approach. The paper concludes by questioning the capacity of market oriented approaches to reduce poverty without … resorting to substantial spending in social policies. Because poverty is a multifaceted situation, it requires not just one …

By all accounts, poverty in Chile has declined dramatically over the last 20 years, with the national headcount ratio … declining from nearly 40% in 1987 to below 14% in 2006. Due to data limitations, most research on poverty in Chile has focused … on national and regional estimates, yet recent improvements in poverty mapping methodologies now enable the analysis of …

This study assesses the redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger. Fiscal policy is poverty increasing … three deciles, respectively). Although existing direct fiscal transfers have poverty-reducing effects, they are too small …