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Children's health opportunities and project evaluation : Mexico's Oportunidades program

Van de gaer, Dirk; Vandenbossche, Joost; Figueroa, Jose Luis - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

This paper proposes a methodology to evaluate social projects from the perspective of children's opportunities on the basis of the effects of these projects on the distribution of outcomes. The evaluation is conditioned on characteristics for which individuals are not responsible; in this case,...

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Poverty alleviation and child labor

Edmonds, Eric V.; Schady, Norbert - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008

Does child labor decrease as household income rises? This question has important implications for the design of policy on child labor. This paper focuses on a program of unconditional cash transfers in Ecuador. It argues that the effect of a small increase in household income on child labor...

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Disability, poverty and schooling in developing countries : results from eleven household surveys

Filmer, Deon - World Bank Group - 2005

This paper analyzes the relationship between whether a young person has a disability, the poverty status of their … the population is identified as having a disability. Youth with disabilities sometimes live in poorer households, but the … schooling attainment. The order of magnitude of the school participation disability deficit is often larger than those …

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Child ability and household human capital investment decisions in Burkina Faso

Akresh, Richard; Bagby, Emilie; de Walque, Damien; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2010

Using data they collected in rural Burkina Faso, the authors examine how children's cognitive abilities influence resource constrained households'decisions to invest in their education. This paper uses a direct measure of child ability for all primary school-aged children, regardless of current...

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Poverty and the spatial distribution of rural population

Barbier, Edward B.; Hochard, Jacob P. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

According to global spatial data sets in 2000 more than one-third of the rural population in developing countries was located on less favored agricultural land and areas. Less favored agricultural lands are susceptible to low productivity and degradation, because their agricultural potential is...

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Local inequality and project choice : theory and evidence from Ecuador

Araujo, M. Caridad; Ferreira, Francisco H.G.; Lanjouw, Peter - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2006

This paper provides evidence consistent with elite capture of Social Fund investment projects in Ecuador. Exploiting a unique combination of data-sets on village-level income distributions, Social Fund project administration, and province level electoral results, the authors test a simple model...

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Making poor Haitians count--poverty in rural and urban Haiti based on the first household survey for Haiti

Verner, Dorte - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008

This paper analyzes poverty in Haiti based on the first Living Conditions Survey of 7,186 households covering the whole country and representative at the regional level. Using a USD1 a day extreme poverty line, the analysis reveals that 49 percent of Haitian households live in absolute poverty....

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Civil war, crop failure, and child stunting in Rwanda

Akresh, Richard; Verwimp, Philip; Bundervoet, Tom - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2007

Economic shocks at birth have lasting effects on children's health several years after the shock. The authors calculate height for age z-scores for children under age five using data from a Rwandan nationally representative household survey conducted in 1992. They exploit district and time...

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How does Vietnam's accession to the World Trade Organization change the spatial incidence of poverty?

Fujii, Tomoki; Roland-Holst, David - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008

Trade policies can promote aggregate efficiency, but the ensuing structural adjustments generally create both winners and losers. From an incomes perspective, trade liberalization can raise gross domestic product per capita, but rates of emergence from poverty depend on individual household...

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Assessing the potential impact on poverty of rising cereals prices : the case of Ghana

Wodon, Quentin; Tsimpo, Clarence; Coulombe, Harold - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008

Concerns have been raised about the impact of rising food prices worldwide on the poor. To assess the (short term) impact of rising food prices in any particular country it is necessary to look at both the impact on food producers (who benefit from an increase in prices) and food consumers (who...

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