This paper investigates the impact of the pilot phase of Paraguay?s conditional cash transfer programme, Tekoporã, on the demand for healthcare and education, and how much of this impact was due to the cash transfers and/or due to changes in behaviour/preferences, possibly as an effect of...

What has happened to inequality between and within countries since 1990? In this paper we explore who have been the winners and losers from global growth since 1990. We find that falls in total global inequality in the last 30 years are predominantly attributable to rising prosperity in China....

In recent years, a large number of studies have investigated the relationship between social security benefits and male retirement decisions in developed countries. However, women?s and couples? labour supply decisions and the patterns of withdrawal from the labour force in emerging economies...

In the remarkable expansion of anti-poverty transfer programmes in developing countries in the last decade, human development income transfer programmes, popularly known as conditional cash transfers, have played a very significant role. Human development income transfer programmes have been...

What is the relevance of Africa?s second largest social protection programme, Ethiopia?s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP), for other countries and especially for India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA)? Are there policy lessons to be noted and operational innovations to be learned from? At...

Various recent papers have sought to make projections about the scale and locations of global poverty in the next 20 to 30 years. Such forecasts have significant policy implications because they are used to inform debates on the scale and objectives of future aid. However, these papers have...

In 2009, the Brazilian public sector ? actually, the Union: including states, municipalities and the Federal District ? collected approximately 35 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP) in taxes, and ?gave back? around 15 per cent in pension and health benefits to the private sector and a...

With the global financial crisis, emerging developing countries have been experiencing marked cycles of capital flows: significant inflows until the collapse of Lehman Brothers; a sudden outflow in the sequence; a rebound of inflows some months after; and, more recently, more short-lived periods...

O cumprimento dos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento do Milênio (ODMs) continua sendo um desafio enorme para muitos países face aos pequenos orçamentos nacionais e ao limitado apoio dos doadores. Este Policy Research Brief destaca a contribuição, para a realização dos ODMs, de estratégias de...