Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 21,474
Cover Image
Measuring Poverty Reduction and Targeting Performance Under Multiple Government Programs
Makdissi, Paul; Wodon, Quentin - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2001
The evaluation of the poverty impact and targeting performance of a given social program may depend on how other programs are treated in the analysis.Using well-known results from cooperative game theory, this paper proposes an empirically simple yet theoretically sound method for allocating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642185
Cover Image
The effect of social programs and exposure to professionals on the educational aspirations of the poor
Chiapa, Carlos; Garrido, José Luis; Prina, Silvia - Centro de Estudios Económicos, Colegio de México - 2010
Investment in human capital is an important tool for reducing poverty. However, the poor may lack the capacity to aspire, which often results in underinvestment in their children’s education. This paper studies the effect of a social program on the educational aspirations of the poor, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008783560
Cover Image
A Snapshot on the Quality of Seven Home Visit Parenting Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean
Leer, Jane; López Bóo, Florencia; Perez Expósito, Ana; … - 2016
Although there is ample support for the causal link between home visit parenting programs and child development outcomes, few studies have explored what it is that drives this relationship – to what extent home visit programs are implemented as designed in terms of the content and strategies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584611
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
A snapshot on the quality of seven home visit parenting programs in Latin America and the Caribbean
Leer, Jane; López Bóo, Florencia; Perez Expósito, Ana; … - 2016
Although there is ample support for the causal link between home visit parenting programs and child development outcomes, few studies have explored what it is that drives this relationship – to what extent home visit programs are implemented as designed in terms of the content and strategies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571942
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
Desigualdad en los programas sociales en el Perú
Lavado, Pablo (contributor) - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del … - 2007
Los programas sociales en el Perú han sido objeto de muchas críticas en cuanto a su focalización, tanto medida como la … análisis de presupuesto, en el Perú se gasta, como proporción del PBI, menos que el promedio latinoamericano. Este bajo gasto …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010842533
Cover Image
Desigualdad en los programas sociales en el Perú
Lavado, Pablo - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del … - 2007
Los programas sociales en el Perú han sido objeto de muchas críticas en cuanto a su focalización, tanto medida como la … análisis de presupuesto, en el Perú se gasta, como proporción del PBI, menos que el promedio latinoamericano. Este bajo gasto …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010770513
Cover Image
Capturing Social Protection for the Poor: the case of "soup kitchens" in Peru
Mendizabal, Enrique; Lavado, Pablo - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del … - 2005
of privatising the PRONAA would not provide a plausible solution. Prevailing policy recommendations in Peru fail to … continuous improvement of social policies in Peru. The analysis also highlights the deeply rooted neo-liberal policy narrative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010770514
Cover Image
The Peruvian Pension Reform
Morón, Eduardo - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del … - 2007
This short note was written for te OSI/Center for Global Development Taskforce on Helping Reforms Deliver Growth in Latin America. Applies the framework proposed in that project to analyze the Peruvian pension reform.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010628285