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Re-thinking social protection : from poverty alleviation to building resilience in middle-income households

Cossío, Diego Alejandro Vera; Hoffmann, Bridget; … - 2023

We exploit an expansion in social protection to middle-income households to provide evidence on how middle-income households cope with economic shocks and how to build their resilience. We use a regression discontinuity design around the eligibility cutoff for a program that delivered monthly...

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Human resources for health and health outcomes : panel data analysis

Kureková, Lucie; Hejdukova, Pavlína; Komárková, Lenka - In: Prague economic papers : a bimonthly journal of … 32 (2023) 2, pp. 205-224

This study aims to evaluate the effects of selected key factors on health outcomes. Unfortunately, statistical reporting in this field is not harmonized, and in some countries it is completely absent. For this reason, valuable information for health determinant analysis may be lacking or...

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From wells to wealth? : government transfers and human capital

Acuna, Julio; Balza, Lenin H.; Gomez-Parra, Nicolas - 2022

To study the causal impact of oil royalties on human capital, we exploit quasi-experimental variation arising from a law in Ecuador that transfers resources to municipalities regardless of their oil-producing status. We find that royalties increase the likelihood of students completing primary...

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A consistent assessment of social welfare by two methodologies : the theory and evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study database

Kot, Stanisław Maciej; Paradowski, Piotr R. - 2024

Research background: Applied welfare economics offers various social welfare functions (SWF) for appraising income distributions. Social planners commonly use two SWFs: SWFε implied by income inequality aversion (ε) and SWFv implied by rank inequality aversion (v). However, a voluntary choice...

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Education, income and mobility : experimental impacts of childhood exposure to progresa after 20 years

Araujo, María Caridad; Macours, Karen - 2021 - Version: October 4, 2021

In 1997, the Mexican government designed the conditional cash transfer program Progresa, which became the worldwide model of a new approach to social programs, simultaneously targeting human capital accumulation and poverty reduction. A large literature has documented the short and medium-term...

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Could better jobs for men have improved gender equality? : the relationship between economic growth and gender equality in India

Balasubramanian, Sujata - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 40 (2023) 2, pp. 241-269

. This paper argues that growth in India has not substantially improved gender equality because it has not sufficiently … activated either of these mechanisms. I analyze structural changes from 1982/83 to 2011/12 to show that India's high … poverty-might actually have led to greater gender equality in India-by reducing poverty-linked gender discrimination. The …

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Exploring the role of microfinance in women's empowerment and entrepreneurial development : a qualitative study

Khursheed, Ambreen - In: Future Business Journal 8 (2022), pp. 1-13

In developing countries, women’s empowerment is a major concern. Several efforts were made to tackle this issue as the aims of poverty reduction and development cannot be achieved without giving attention to women’s empowerment. Over the past decades, microfinance institutions (MFIs) have...

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Multinational companies: can they foster well-being in the eyes of the poor? : Results from an empirical case study

Strotmann, Harald; Volkert, Jürgen; Schmidt, Melinda - In: International journal of corporate social … 4 (2019) 2, pp. 1-14

the reported well-being of poor villagers in rural India. For the case of the Bayer Crop Science Model Village Project …

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Unequal opportunity and growth in India : a dynamic panel analysis by using survey data

Das, Panchanan - In: Asia and the global economy : AGE 2 (2022) 1, pp. 1-8

This study analyses the lack of robust conclusions about the association between inequality and economic growth. On the basis of ex-ante concept of inequality of opportunity, the parametric measure of unequal opportunity is used by partitioning the total sample in to 16 mutually exclusive...

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Financial inclusion and inclusive growth in sub-Saharan Africa

Sarpong, Bernard; Nketiah-Amponsah, Edward - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-17

This paper empirically examines the quantitative relationship between financial inclusion and inclusive growth in sub-Saharan Africa using a panel of 46 countries for the period 2004–2018. The evidence suggests that usage of financial services, among other covariates, has a quantifiable and...

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