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This study evaluates the impact of Microenterprise Development (MD) assistance on the labor supply, income, expenditure, savings, and capital investment of beneficiaries of Pantawid Pamilya, the Philippine government's conditional cash transfers (CCT) program. The assistance is provided by the...
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programme can contribute to reducing poverty in Pakistan. Topics analyzed are poverty, education and social protection in …The Child Support Programme is a pilot Conditional Cash Transfer programme in Pakistan, aimed at increasing literacy … Pakistan. Econometric analysis is done with data from the Child Support Programme, showing that on a longer run, conditional …
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This paper aims to provide a detailed demographic description of poverty in Pakistan with an attempt to highlight those … segments of the poor who can be aided to transition out of extreme poverty through appropriate policy measures. Data are … collected from the Household Integrated Economic Survey (HIES) for the years 1985–2016 and captures falling poverty, gender …
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poverty, multidimensional poverty index (MPI) and child deprivation index (CDI). The results indicate that BISP cash … households are until facing high rates of poverty as the majority of them have not been transited out of poverty. No sustained …
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This Research Report summarises an analysis of 51 non-contributory social protection programmes led by central government in the eight countries of South Asia. The sample manages to capture the flagship initiatives of national systems, providing a broad overview of current relevant social...
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The vision of Pakistan's social protection strategy to reach the poor and vulnerable (2007) is 'to develop an … non poor households into poverty, and poor households into deeper poverty; and 3) to promote investment in human and … medium run and of interrupting the intergenerational cycle of poverty. This vision is fully consistent with the World Bank …
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