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Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) provide income to the poor in an effort to improve current welfare and promote investment in human and social capital to prevent future deprivation. So far, the impact evaluation literature has focused on estimating current effects on outcomes such as school...
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Este trabajo realiza un estudio comparativo del impacto de las remesas y la migración internacional sobre la pobreza y la desigualdad en cuatro países latinoamericanos con importantes procesos migratorios (Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras y Nicaragua). A partir de encuestas de hogares se estiman...
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Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) provide income to the poor in an effort to improve current welfare and promote investment in human and social capital to prevent future deprivation. So far, the impact evaluation literature has focused on estimating current effects on outcomes such as school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008751557
Este trabajo realiza un estudio comparativo del impacto de las remesas y la migración internacional sobre la pobreza y la desigualdad en cuatro países latinoamericanos con importantes procesos migratorios (Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras y Nicaragua). A partir de encuestas de hogares se estiman...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008751558
This paper discusses the rationale as well as the challenges involved when constructing gender-related indicators of well-being. It argues that such indicators are critically important but that their construction involves a number of conceptual and measurement problems. Among the conceptual...
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different dimensions, we explore the role of average improvements and distributional changes in children's health and nutrition …The literature on the contributions to poverty reduction of average improvements in living standards vs. distributional … changes uses only one measure of well-being - income or expenditure. Given that poverty is defined by deprivation over …
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reductions in education poverty, and to a lesser extent, health poverty. This, too, is a very different result from the income … and changes in the distribution of health and education, we show that reduced inequality has contributed to significant …This paper uses Demographic and Health Survey data from six Latin American countries to analyze levels and trends of …
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This paper discusses the evolution of education and health poverty in Indonesia during a period of substantial economic … development. The paper reviews the existing empirical research and provides new estimates of the evolution of education and health … poverty using the Demographic and Health Survey. The case of Indonesia suggests that poverty may urbanize but remains largely …
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health and education government spending on income inequality in the European Union over the 2002-2015 period. In this …
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poverty despite striking reductions in absolute poverty. The effects of relative deprivation explain why average happiness has …
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