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Chile Solidario System: Comprehensive Social Protection for the Country's Poorest 225,000 Families

Chile, Government of - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

This presentation was commissioned by the Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network of the Regional Policy … ¿80s up until 1998 made a steady reduction of poverty and indigence possible because of the impact that economic growth …, with the result that the decline in poverty rates has slowed somewhat and the incidence of indigence has risen slightly …

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Monitoring the Millennium Development Goals: The Jamaican Experience

Knight, Pauline - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

This presentation was commissioned by the Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network of the Regional Policy …

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Employment and Unemployment in Latin America: Stylized Facts and Implications for the Design of Employment Policies

Pagés-Serra, Carmen - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003

This presentation was commissioned by the Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network of the Regional Policy …

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Integral Policies of Poverty Reduction: The Challenge of Effectiveness

Engel, Wanda - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004

of the poverty reduction policies. …

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Structural Adjustment and Poverty in Bolivia

Vos, Rob; Lee, Haeduck; Mejía-Guerra, José Antonio - Inter-American Development Bank - 1996

This document was prepared in the context of the Program for the "Improvement of Surveys and the Measurement of Living Conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean" (ISLC/MECOVI). Bolivia ranks among Latin America's so-called "early adjusters". While Bolivia's economic reforms, which began in...

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Internationally Comparable Poverty Lines

Kakwani, N. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004

This presentation was commissioned by the Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network of the Regional Policy … Dialogue for the VII Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on November 11th and 12th, 2004. Poverty line specifies the level of income … income or consumption is less than the poverty line. …

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Returns to Private Education in Peru

Ñopo, Hugo; Calónico, Sebastián - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007

The private provision of educational services has been representing an increasing fraction of the Peruvian schooling system, especially in recent decades. While there have been many claims about the differences in quality between private and public schools, there is no complete assessment of the...

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Crime Victimization and Income Distribution

Tella, Rafael Di; Galiani, Sebastián; Schargrodsky, Ernesto - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

Crime levels have risen significantly in Argentina during recent years. In this study, we analyze the relationship between crime victimization and income distribution.

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Belize: Poverty and Economic Sector Performance

Devoto, Florencia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

objective of this document is to examine the relationship between economic performance and poverty. In order to do so, it … explores the determinants of changes in poverty during the 90s, and particularly how this relationship holds for those sectors … relevant demographic and socioeconomic factors. The main conclusions of the paper are that given the poverty characteristics …

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A Primer for Applying Propensity-Score Matching

Heinrich, Carolyn; Maffioli, Alessandro; Vázquez, Gonzalo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

This document provides a guide to the key aspects of implementing Propensity-Score Matching (PSM) methodology. It summarizes the basic conditions under which PSM can be used to estimate the impact of a program and the data required, presenting examples of PSM applications. It explains how the...

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