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"United we stand divided we fall": maternal social participation and children's nutritional status in Peru

Favara, Marta - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2012

might have important implications for child development. Maternal social capital is positively associated with height at 1 …

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International interventions to build social capital : evidence from a field experiment in Sudan

Avdeenko, Alexandra; Gilligan, Michael J. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Over the past decade the international community, especially the World Bank, has conducted programs to increase local public service delivery in developing countries by improving local governing institutions and creating social capital. This paper evaluates one such program in Sudan to answer...

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Disability, poverty, and schooling in developing countries : results from 11 household surveys

Filmer, Deon - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2005

This paper analyzes the relationship between whether a young person has a disability, the poverty status of their household, and their school participation using 11 household surveys from nine developing countries. Between 1 and 2 percent of the population is identified as having a disability....

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Does better access to contraceptives increase their use? Key policy and methodological issues

Cochrane, Susan H.; Gibney, Laura - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1991

The effect of community characteristics, in general, and access to family planning services, in particular, on contraceptive use has received considerable attention for several reasons. First, from a policy perspective, increasing access to contraception is the most direct intervention available...

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Crime and violence in development : a literature review of Latin America and the Caribbean

Heinemann, Alessandra; Verner, Dorte - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2006

manifestations of crime and violence in Latin America. They also discuss the ways in which violence affects development, the root …

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Protecting child nutritional status in the aftermath of a financial crisis : evidence from Indonesia

Giles, John; Satriawan, Elan - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2010

This paper exploits heterogeneity in program exposure to evaluate the effectiveness of a supplementary feeding program implemented in the wake of the 1997-1998 economic crises in Indonesia. The explicit aim of the program was to protect the nutritional status of infants and young children from...

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Sources of Welfare Disparities across and within Regions of Brazil: Evidence from the 2002-03 Household Budget Survey

Skoufias, Emmanuel; Katayama, Roy - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009

Brazil's inequalities in welfare and poverty across and within regions can be accounted for by differences in household attributes and returns to those attributes. This paper uses Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions at the mean as well as at different quantiles of welfare distributions on regionally...

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The Developing World's Bulging (but Vulnerable) "Middle Class"

Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009

The "developing world's middle class" is defined here as those who are not poor when judged by the median poverty line of developing countries, but are still poor by US standards. The "Western middle class" is defined as those who are not poor by US standards. Although barely 80 million people...

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Measuring Subjective Expectations in Developing Countries: A Critical Review and New Evidence

Delavande, Adeline; Gine, Xavier; McKenzie, David - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009

The majority of economic decisions taken by individuals are forward looking and thus involve their expectations of future outcomes. Understanding the expectations that individuals have is thus of crucial importance to designing and evaluating policies in health, education, finance, migration,...

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Finance and inequality : theory and evidence

Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Levine, Ross - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009

This paper critically reviews the literature on finance and inequality, highlighting substantive gaps in the literature …. Finance plays a crucial role in most theories of persistent inequality. Unsurprisingly, therefore, economic theory provides a … rich set of predictions concerning both the impact of finance on inequality and about the relevant mechanisms. Although …

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