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A Pause in the Growth of Inequality in China?
Herd, Richard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been fairly steep since the 1980s. Policy action has taken the form of regional development measures and of reforms of various aspects of the social safety net broadly defined. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480479
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The distributional impact of social spending in Peru
Gaentzsch, Anja - 2018
Peru has made great progress in reducing poverty and inequality in the past decade alongside high economic growth … impact of the public tax and transfer system in Peru. It applies an extended income approach that accounts for the value of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011842213
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The distributional impact of social spending in Peru
Gaentzsch, Anja - 2018
Peru has made great progress in reducing poverty and inequality in the past decade alongside high economic growth … impact of the public tax and transfer system in Peru. It applies an extended income approach that accounts for the value of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011840799
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Política de transferência de renda e impactos na imunização das crianças: o Programa Bolsa Família
Andrade, Mônica Viegas; Souza, Laeticia Rodrigues de; … - Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional … - 2007
This paper investigates the impacts of Bolsa Família program on children aged 0-6 immunization in Brazil and its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005029951
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Remesas y Migración Internacional en América Latina: Simulación de los Efectos en la Pobreza y la Desigualdad
Battistón, Diego - 2010
la desigualdad en cuatro países latinoamericanos con importantes procesos migratorios (Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras y … Nicaragua). A partir de encuestas de hogares se estiman los cambios producidos sobre estas dos dimensiones utilizando diferentes … la desigualdad y en Ecuador, El Salvador y Honduras también se reducen significativamente las tasas de pobreza. La …
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Economic Crises, Maternal and Infant Mortality, Low Birth Weight and Enrollment Rates: Evidence from Argentina’s Downturns
Cruces, Guillermo; Gluzmann, Pablo; Lopez-Calva, Luis Felipe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This study investigates the impact of recent crises in Argentina (including the severe downturn of 2001–02) on health and education outcomes. The identification strategy relies on both the inter-temporal and the cross-provincial co-variation between changes in regional GDP and outcomes by...
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Do Europe's minimum income schemes provide adequate shelter against the economic crisis and how, if at all, have governments responded?
Marchal, Sarah; Marx, Ive; Van Mechelen, Natascha - 2011
The present economic crisis comes against the background of decades of policy changes that have generally weakened the capacity of social safety nets to offer citizens with adequate resources for financial survival when labour markets fail to do so. Building on data for 24 European Union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282192
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Do Europe’s Minimum Income Schemes ProvideAdequate Shelter against the Economic Crisis andHow, If at All, Have Governments Responded?
Marchal, Sarah; Marx, Ive; Van Mechelen, Natascha - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
The present economic crisis comes against the background of decades of policy changesthat have generally weakened the capacity of social safety nets to offer citizens withadequate resources for financial survival when labour markets fail to do so. Building on datafor 24 European Union countries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486970