Search Results - subject:"TRANSFER PROGRAM"

Domestic Petroleum Product Prices and Subsidies; Recent Developments and Reform Strategies

Coady, David; Baig, Taimur; Ntamatungiro, Joseph; Mati, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

The paper reviews recent developments in the pass-through of international to domestic petroleum product prices, in the different fuel pricing regimes, and in fuel subsidies in a range of emerging market and developing economies. The main finding of the paper is the limited price pass-through in...

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Teenage School Attendance and Cash Transfers. An Impact Evaluation of PANES

Amarante, Verónica; Ferrando, Mery; Vigorito, Andrea - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2013)

This article analyzes the impact of PANES, a temporary social assistance program carried out in Uruguay between 2005 and 2007, on school attendance and child labour for children aged 14 to 17. We explore three potential explanatory channels: labour market outcomes, household income and awareness...

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Two social protection programs in Pakistan

Nabi, Ijaz - In: The Lahore journal of economics 18 (2013), pp. 283-304

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Coping with the “coffee crisis” in Central America

Maluccio, John A. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005

"This study examines the effect of a safety-net program on households' well-being and work activities during an economic downturn. It considers (1) how rural Nicaraguan households without the Red de Protección Social (RPS) program fared over the period 2000–02, and (2) whether households...

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Coping with the “coffee crisis” in Central America: The Role of the Nicaraguan Red de Protección Social

Maluccio, John A. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005

examine the role of a conditional cash transfer program, the Red de Protección Social (RPS), during this downturn. While not …

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Corruption, food subsidies, and opacity: Evidence from the Philippines

Mehta, Aashish; Jha, Shikha - In: Economics Letters 117 (2012) 3, pp. 708-711

We argue that subsidized food distribution systems that fail to publicize how much food has been allocated to each local market will experience high rates of theft on the margin as they are expanded. We provide the first comparable cross-section of estimates of subsidized food theft. As...

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Effects on School Enrollment and Performance of a Conditional Transfers Program in Mexico

Dubois, Pierre; de Janvry, Alain; Sadoulet, Elisabeth - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2003

performance (passing grades) and the effect of a conditional cash transfer program for children enrolled at school. Careful … which a randomized experiment has been implemented and allows us to identify the effect of the conditional cash transfer … program on enrollment and performance at school. Using the rules of the conditional program, we can explain the different …

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Effects on school enrollment and performance of a conditional transfers program in Mexico

Dubois, P.; De Janvry, A.; Sadoulet, E. - Département d'Économie et Sociologie Rurales, … - 2002

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Issues in Domestic Petroleum Pricing in Oil-Producing Countries

Gupta, Sanjeev; Clements, Benedict J.; Fletcher, Kevin; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

This paper discusses issues relating to the domestic pricing of petroleum in oil-producing countries. It finds that in most major oil-exporting countries, government policies keep domestic prices below free-market levels, resulting in implicit subsidies that equaled 3.0 percent of GDP, on...

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Rational Poverty or Poor Rationality? The Take-up of Social Assistance Benefits

Riphahn, Regina T. - 2000

In several countries social assistance dependence has been increasing since the 1980s. After surveying the theoretical and empirical take-up literature, this study presents estimates of recent rates of non take-up of social assistance benefits. Once methodological shortcomings of prior...

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