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Long-term effects of PROSPERA on welfare
Aguilar Esteva, Arturo Alberto; Barnard, Cristina; De … - 2019
The long-term effects of Mexico's conditional cash transfer program, PROSPERA, on poor households are of great interest to policy makers and academics alike. This paper analyzes the long-term effects on the welfare of the original participant households and their offspring, about 20 years after...
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Do Bilateral Social Security Agreements Deliver on the Portability of Pensions and Health Care Benefits? : A Summary Policy Paper on Four Migration Corridors between EU and Non-EU...
Holzmann, Robert - 2016
This policy paper summarizes four corridor studies on bilateral social security agreements (BSSAs) between four European Union (EU) member and two non-member states, draws conclusions on their results, and offers recommendations. BSSAs between migrant-sending and migrant-receiving countries are...
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Continuous Improvement : Strengthening Georgia's Targeted Social Assistance Program
Baum, Tinatin - 2016 - Online-Ausg.
Targeted Social Assistance of Georgia is a last-resort social program that is considered a best practice among programs … 2013, the government of Georgia embarked on the revision of this program to ensure its continued effectiveness and to … of program eligibility. Continuous Improvement: Strengthening Georgia's Targeted Social Assistance Program assesses the …
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Georgia Economic Impact of East-West Highway Phase 2 : Assessing the Impact of East-West Highway Investments on Exports through Gravity Modeling
World Bank - 2016
The objective of this study is to assess the impact of the East-West Highway improvement program on Georgia's ability …
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Greener Transport Connectivity for Eastern Partnership Countries
World Bank Group - 2020
The Eastern Partnership (EaP) is a joint policy initiative, which aims to deepen and strengthen relations between the European Union (EU) and its six Eastern neighbours. One of its four priority areas is stronger connectivity which includes the extension of the Trans European Transport Network...
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Compulsory Social Security Participation Revealed Preferences
Thanh, To Trung - 2009
The study starts with a classification of the enterprises depending on their participation to the Vietnam social security. Among the enterprises that contribute, one striking feature is that on average the share in the wage bill of the contributions paid to the Vietnam social security is much...
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Adaptive safety nets for rural Africa : drought-sensitive targeting with sparse data
Baez, Javier E.; Kshirsagar, Varun; Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2019
This paper combines remote-sensed data and individual child-, mother-, and household-level data from the Demographic and Health Surveys for five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) to design a prototype drought-contingent targeting framework that...
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Realizing the Full Potential of Social Safety Nets in Africa
Beegle, Kathleen - 2009
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The Gambia Social Safety Nets Diagnostic
World Bank Group - 2018
Almost half the population remain poor, but the proportion has increased in rural areas and decreased in urban areas. Poverty stands at 48.6 percent nationally and almost 70 percent in rural areas; 21.3 percent are extreme poor, rising to 32.2 percent in rural areas5. The poverty rate hasn't...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645438
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Organizing Social Protection in Federal States : International Examples of Federalism and Social Protection and Implications for Pakistan
Matsuda, Yasuhiko - 2017
Pakistan's social protection system is still in a nascent stage of development and so is the country's fiscal and institutional architecture for inter-governmental relations. In particular, the implicit devolution of social protection and related functions in the eighteenth constitutional...
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