We measure the impact of a business training program for female microentrepreneur clients of a group banking program in Peru. Using the credit with education model, we assigned clients randomly to either treatment or control groups. Treatment groups received thirty to sixty minute...

Pour analyser la transition dans la pauvreté, ainsi que les facteurs déterminants les entrées et sorties dans la pauvreté en milieu urbain au Bénin, cette étude utilise des données de panel de 836 ménages constituées à partir des enquêtes officielles sur les conditions de vie des...

This paper analyzes the relationship between households' wealth and heterogeneous treatment impacts for a market-based training program that has benefited more than 40,000 disadvantaged individuals in Peru since 1996. We proxy long-run wealth by a linear index based on 21 households assets, and...

Using the experience of the Educational Quality Inputs (EQI) Scheme in Sri Lanka, the paper examines the distributional aspects of formula-based funding and efficiency of decentralized management of education funds in a developing country setting. The study finds that the EQI fund distribution...

L'objectif principal de cette étude est de montrer l'importance des politiques d'incitation à l'investissement agricole dans la stratégie de réduction de la pauvreté alimentaire en milieu agricole. Les données sont tirées des enquêtes CILSS-LSMS "Côte d'Ivoire Living Standard Survey" ou...

Health care financing in Nigeria is dominated by private out-of-pocket payment that is not affordable to the poor. This has greatly reduced access to quality health care for the predominantly rural poor. Insurance schemes as options for increasing access to health care services have not received...

Using annual urban household survey data from 6 provinces in different regions of China, we analyze the rapid increase in earning inequality of urban China from 1988 to 2003. We describe overall and residual inequality trends and use quantile regression to address the relationship between...

La présente étude se propose d'analyser les bénéfices acquis à l'usage des services publics dans les secteurs de la santé et de l'éducation au Cameroun. Plus spécifiquement il s'agit: (i) d'évaluer la part du budget réellement acquis; (ii) de déterminer le contenu équité du...

This paper analyses multidimensional aspects of child poverty in Kenya. We carry out poverty and inequality comparisons for child survival and also use the parametric survival model to explain childhood mortality using DHS data. The results of poverty comparisons show that: children with the...

The Value Added Tax (VAT) was introduced in India in place of Sales Tax, taking effect in April 1, 2005. These taxes are in the domain of different state governments within the country's federal set up. Although VAT is widely acclaimed to be a better system than the sales tax on grounds of...