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School subsidies for the poor
Schultz, T. Paul - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001
communities with education grants, if their children attend school regularly. Enrollment rates are compared between groups of poor … children who reside in communities randomly selected to participate in the initial phase of the PROGRESA program and those who … implemented, and double-differenced estimators are reported over time within this panel of children. Probit models are then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997149
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A cost-effectiveness analysis of demand- and supply-side education interventions
Coady, David P.; Parker, Susan W. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2002
This paper is concerned with the issue of the most cost-effective way of improving access to education for poor households in developing countries. We consider two alternatives: (1) extensive expansion of the school system (i.e., bringing education to the poor) and (2) subsidizing investment in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997155
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A cost-effectiveness analysis of demand- and supply-side education interventions
Coady, David P.; Parker, Susan W. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2002
This paper is concerned with the issue of the most cost-effective way of improving access to education for poor households in developing countries. We consider two alternatives: (1) extensive expansion of the school system (i.e., bringing education to the poor) and (2) subsidizing investment in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997329
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Evaluating transfer programs within a general equilibrium framework
Coady, David P.; Harris, Rebecca Lee - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001
The authors set out a general equilibrium model for the evaluation of a domestically financed transfer program, which helps to combine the results from a computable general equilibrium model with disaggregated household data.Using a Mexican cash transfer program as an illustration, they use the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997251
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An evaluation of the distributional power of PROGRESA's cash transfers in Mexico
Coady, David P. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001
Using both national-sample and program-level census survey data, we evaluate the distributional power of Mexico's Programa Nacional de Educacion, Salud y Alimentacion (PROGRESA) transfers using the so-called distributional characteristic.These transfers are targeted both geographically at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997344
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Poverty, inequality, and spillover in Mexico's education, health, and nutrition program
Handa, Sudhanshu; Huerta, Mari-Carmen; Perez, Raul; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001
This report provides an evaluation of the community-level effects of the Programa Nacional de Educacion, Salud, y Alimentacion (PROGRESA) using household-level data from various rounds of PROGRESA's evaluation sample (the Encuesta de Evaluacion de los Hogares [ENCEL] surveys).Other reports in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037823
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Evaluating transfer programs within a general equilibrium framework
Coady, David P.; Harris, Rebecca Lee - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001
The authors set out a general equilibrium model for the evaluation of a domestically financed transfer program, which helps to combine the results from a computable general equilibrium model with disaggregated household data.Using a Mexican cash transfer program as an illustration, they use the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997114
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Informal markets
Sharma, Manohar; Zeller, Manfred - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2000
In most developing countries, it is the private, informal markets that the rural poor have traditionally turned to service their financial needs. Why have these institutions succeeded in providing services to the poor when formal institutions have not? Do these informal institutions provide any...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996849
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Rural financial services for poverty alleviation
Sharma, Manohar; Zeller, Manfred - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2000
For poor rural families in developing countries, access to credit and savings facilities has the potential to make the difference between grinding poverty and an economically secure life. Well-managed savings facilities permit households to build up funds for future investment or consumption....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996853
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The demand for financial services by the rural poor
Zeller, Manfred; Sharma, Manohar - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2000
This policy brief summarizes lessons learned from IFPRI's multicountry program on rural finance and household food security with regard to the poors' demand for financial services. The lessons are derived from detailed household surveys conducted in nine countries of Asia and Africa: Bangladesh,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996855