The report shows that there is good evidence that conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have improved the lives of poor people. Transfers generally have been well targeted to poor households, have raised consumption levels, and have reduced poverty, by a substantial amount in some countries....

Children regularly receiving health visits and education, the sick receiving proper and timely health care, safe water flowing out of the tap, electricity reliably reaching homes and businesses-these apparently simple events are taken for granted in developed countries. In Latin America, despite...

The paper is based on the premise that effective institutional reforms for service delivery require a carefully-considered institutional"fitting"process as opposed to transplantation of"international best practices."The paper asks how the specific institutional contexts of a given country limit...

The authors estimate returns to schooling in urban Argentina for a 10-year period. In addition to comparable earnings functions, they also estimate the returns using quantile regression analysis to detect differences in the returns across the distribution. Over time, men in higher quantiles have...

Depende. El punto de vista standard en economía es el siguiente: reducciones en el salario mínimo aumentan el empleo en el sector formal, reduciendo de este modo la oferta efectiva del trabajo en el sector informal y aumentando el ingreso de los trabajadores en dicho sector. Pero en un modelo...

The paper proposes the principles which should guide the design of a compensation package for redundant workers following a program of voluntary retrenchment. It is argued that the compensation should be equal to the opportunity cost of leaving the enterprise. Using a simple specification for...