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Income Effect on Labor Outcomes for People Living in Poverty: the case of PROGRESA
(2021-09-03)
This paper studies the income effect of cash transfers on adult labor outcomes. I use data of PROGRESA, a large cash transfer program in Mexico that provides money to households subject to the condition that school aged ...
Conditional cash transfers, public provision of private goods, and income redistribution
(Amer Economic Assoc, 2007-03)
Evidence of eligibility manipulation for conditional cash transfer programs
(2013-12-09)
This paper assesses whether eligibility for conditional cash transfer programs have been manipulated, as well as the impact of this phenomenon on time allocation within households. To perform this analysis, we use data ...
Impact of the Uruguayan conditional cash transfer program
(Instituto de Economía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2009)
Impact of the Bolsa Família program on food availability of low-income Brazilian families: a quasi experimental study
(BioMed Central, 2016)
Abstract
Background
The Bolsa Família Program was created in Brazil in 2003, by the joint of different social programs aimed at poor or very poor families with focus on ...
Universal Basic Income in Developing Countries: Pitfalls and Alternatives
(Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia da FGV, 2021-02-23)
This article studies the short -and long-term effects of Universal Basic Income programs - a uniform transfer to every individual in society - in the context of a developing economy and compares this policy with other ...
Intergovernmental transfers and public spending in Brazilian municipalities
(2015-03-02)
We estimate the effects of unconditional (full fiscal decentralization) versus conditional (partial fiscal decentralization) block grants on local public spending in Brazilian municipalities. Our results suggest that the ...
Migration to middle-income countries and tuberculosis—global policies for global economies
(BioMed Central, 2017)
Background
International migration to middle-income countries is increasing and its health consequences, in particular increasing transmission rates of tuberculosis (TB), deserve consideration. Migration ...
No impact of rural development policies?: no synergies with conditional cash transfers?: an investigation of the IFAD-Supported Gavião Project in Brazil
(2018-09)
Public policies frequently are implemented simultaneously rather than in isolation. We estimate the impacts—and possible synergies—of a rural development project (Pro-Gavião) and the Brazilian conditional cash transfer ...
Alma-Ata: Rebirth and revision 2 - Supporting the delivery of cost-effective interventions in primary health-care systems in low-income and middle-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews
(ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2008)
Strengthening health systems is a key challenge to improving the delivery of cost-effective interventions in primary health care and achieving the vision of the Alma-Ata Declaration. Effective governance, financial and ...