Search Results - subject:"PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMS"

Social Protection and Foundational Cognitive Skills during Adolescence: Evidence from a Large Public Works Program

Freund, Richard; Favara, Marta; Porter, Catherine; … - In: The World Bank Economic Review 38 (2024) 2, pp. 296-318

Many low- and middle-income countries have introduced public works programs (PWPs) to fight poverty. This paper …

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Labor-intensive public works programs in sub-Saharan Africa: Experiences and implications for employment policies

Sakketa, Tekalign Gutu; von Braun, Joachim - 2019

Public works programs (PWPs) in sub-Saharan African countries have re-emerged as an important policy to stimulate …

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Labor-intensive public works programs in sub-Saharan Africa : experiences and implications for employment policies

Sakketa, Tekalign Gutu; Braun, Joachim von - 2019

Public works programs (PWPs) in sub-Saharan African countries have re-emerged as an important policy to stimulate …

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Public works programs in developing countries have the potential to reduce poverty

Zimmermann, Laura - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

Public works programs in developing countries can reduce poverty in the long term and help low-skilled workers cope … works programs. …. In practice, rationing, corruption, mismanagement, and other implementation flaws often limit the effectiveness of public …

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Public works programs in developing countries have the potential to reduce poverty

Zimmermann, Laura - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) May, pp. 1-10

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Expanding social protection in developing countries: A gender perspective

Antonopoulos, Rania - 2013

This paper discusses social protection initiatives in the context of developing countries and explores the opportunities they present for promoting a gender-equality agenda and women's empowerment. The paper begins with a brief introduction on the emergence of social protection (SP) and how it...

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"Expanding Social Protection in Developing Countries: A Gender Perspective"

Antonopoulos, Rania - Levy Economics Institute - 2013

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Productive effects of public works programs : what do we know? : what should we know?

Gehrke, Esther; Hartwig, Renate - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 107 (2018), pp. 111-124

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Public works programs in developing countries have the potential to reduce poverty : the success of public works programs in reducing poverty depends on their design and implementa...

Zimmermann, Laura - 2014

Public works programs in developing countries can reduce poverty in the long term and help lowskilled workers cope with … works programs. …. In practice, rationing, corruption, mismanagement, and other implementation flaws often limit the effectiveness of public …

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Do public works programs work? Some unpleasant results from the East German experience

Kraus, Florian; Puhani, Patrick A.; Steiner, Viktor - 1998

We analyze the effectiveness of public works programs (PWP, Arbeitsbeschaffungsmaßnahmen) in east Germany as measured … both the effectiveness and the equity aspects of public works programs in east Germany. …

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