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Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network

Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2006

This presentation discusses the goals, priorities, and instruments of the Poverty and Social Protection Network, which … Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the Caribbean Subregional Meeting held on …

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Ecuador: Creating Fiscal Space for Poverty Reduction: A Fiscal Management and Public Expenditure Review. Volume I

Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American …; … - 2004

This report consists of two volumes. Volume I examines whether, and how, the core goals of public expenditure management, i.e., balanced fiscal aggregates, resource allocations to strategic sectors, and equity and microeconomic efficiency of public spending are met in Ecuador. Volume II presents...

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Hurricane Mitch: Women's Needs and Contributions

Buvinic, Mayra; Vega, Gabriela; Bertrand, Mauricio; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999

This report examines evidence from post-Mitch Central America and disasters in other parts of the world to identify the ways disasters affect women and to highlight women's participation in prevention, relief, rehabilitation, and reconstruction efforts. This report is based on background papers...

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2011: Climate Change: Latin America and the Caribbean: Risks for the Microfinance Sector and Opportunities for Adaptation

Gutierrez, María Elena; Mommens, Xavier - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

The purpose of this study is to show how microfinance services may undergo the impacts of climate change, to analyze the opportunities available for MFIs and to propose concrete actions. This paper was commissioned by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in coordination with the Sustainable...

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Investing in Large Scale Financial Inclusion: The Case of Colombia

Maldonado, Jorge Higinio; Tejerina, Luis - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs have become in many countries the largest social program and the framework upon which a social protection network is being built. These programs have more than 24 million beneficiaries in the Latin America and the Caribbean region and have been subject to...

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Financial Inclusion Through the Bono de Desarrollo Humano in Ecuador: Exploring Options and Beneficiary Readiness

Samaniego, Pablo; Tejerina, Luis - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

The objective of the document is to asses the level of interaction of the Bono de Desarrollo Humano benficiaries in Quito with the financial sector. Specifically the study tries to understand different aspects related to the use of electronic cards to pay the BDH transfers and the wellbeing on...

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Soap Operas and Fertility: Evidence from Brazil

Ferrara, Eliana La; Duryea, Suzanne; Chong, Alberto E. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008

This paper focuses on fertility choices in Brazil, a country where soap operas (novelas) portray families that are much smaller than in reality, to study the effects of television on individual behavior. Using Census data for the period 1970-1991, the paper finds that women living in areas...

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Health and Poverty in Brazil: Estimation by Structural Equation Model with Latent Variables

Giuffrida, Antonio; Iunes, Roberto F.; Savedoff, William D. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005

Brazil is characterized by large inequalities in income, access to health care, and health status. This paper uses data from the 1998 Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios to analyze the complex relationships among health, income, health insurance and health care utilization to gain a...

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What Challenges do Poverty Reduction Strategies Face?

Engel, Wanda - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003

This presentation was commissioned by the Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network of the Regional Policy … Dialogue for the VI Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on December 9th and 10th, 2003. Why reduce poverty? Social, economic …, political and ethical questions. What is Poverty? Basic concepts: poverty, inequality, exclusion and vulnerability Who are the …

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The Growth of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean: Did They Go Too Far?

Stampini, Marco; Tornarolli, Leopoldo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

reduce current poverty while developing the human capital of the next generation, in the attempt to break the … intergenerational transmission of poverty. Pioneered in Brazil and Mexico in the late 1990s, by 2011 CCTs had spread to 18 countries in … data to document (i) the evolution of CCTs and poverty in LAC, (ii) the relationship between expanded coverage and the …

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