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the schemes workable for the poor. The vast number of people below the poverty line, and the failure of schemes meant for …
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In this paper, we study the role of price correction in estimating the impact of price subsidies and anti-poverty cash … transfer schemes on poverty in Tunisia. Three types of price corrections are considered: (a) no corrections; (b) living … effects of the price deflation and the demand system estimation on poverty and budget leakage estimates. These effects can …
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Information campaigns aimed at empowering the poor often fall short of meeting their desired aims. We study literacy's role in determining their efficacy. First, exploiting an RD design, we show that receipt of information increased household rice receipts by 30 percentage points. Second, we...
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The Philippine government shows its serious effort to combat poverty through the continuing expansion of the Pantawid … American countries. The 4Ps by far is the most comprehensive and also controversial poverty reduction program of the Philippine … features of the 4Ps and the reviews or assessments done so far, and to expound the issues surrounding the targeting scheme and …
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targeting, geographical targeting, targeting of the poor, and progressive targeting. In the poverty simulation approach, it is … Philippines, the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino. The study investigates the impact of CCT on current poverty, and the impact of this … extra money on school attendance under different transfer amounts and different targeting criteria such as universal …
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