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Reducing poverty and social disparities in Lithuania

Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki - 2020

Reducing poverty remains an important challenge, and the COVID-19-crisis may further reinforce social vulnerabilities …. Although it has declined lately, relative poverty remains high in international comparison and is distributed unevenly across … particularly affected. A comprehensive approach is required to ensure an effective transition out of poverty and social exclusion …

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Public works programs in developing countries have the potential to reduce poverty : the success of public works programs in reducing poverty depends on their design and implementa...

Zimmermann, Laura - 2014

Public works programs in developing countries can reduce poverty in the long term and help lowskilled workers cope with …

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Can a pay-for-performance program help the vulnerable find jobs during a pandemic? : experimental evidence from Empleate in Colombia

Gómez, María Fernanda; González-Velosa, Carolina - 2023

During a period of COVID-19-induced job losses and mobility restrictions, the government of Colombia's launched Empléate, an innovative Pay-for-performance (P4P) program that targeted impoverished and vulnerable workers. Empléate operated at a national scale and had a novel financial...

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The effects of integrated conditional cash transfers and public works programs on household income generation in rural Tanzania

Emmanuel, Fides; Hepelwa, Aloyce - In: Tanzania economic review : TER 14 (2024) 1, pp. 189-214

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Praca lekarstwem na biede̜ i wykluczenie : strategie wobec pracy

Golinowska, Stanisława; Ruzik, Anna; Pieliński, Bartosz; … - 2007

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Safety net for India's poor or waste of public funds? : poverty and welfare in the wake of the World's Largest Job Guarantee Program

Klonner, Stefan; Oldiges, Christian - 2014

's largest public employment program, on household consumption and poverty rates in rural India. Combining regionally coded data … opportunities under the scheme have cut poverty during the agricultural lean season by as much as one half while we find no effect …

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Some simple analytics of poverty redress through direct income transfers and wage employment programmes : a review and commentary

Subramanian, S. - 2004

optimal anti-poverty budgetary rules for two kinds of intervention, direct income transfers and wage employment programmes. …

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Assessing the impact of a minimum income scheme in the Basque country

Rica, Sara de la; Gorjón, Lucía - 2017

In this paper we assess the impact of a Minimum Income Scheme (MIS) which has been operating in the Basque Country, one of Spain's 17 regions, for more than twenty years. In particular, we test whether the policy delays entry into employment for recipients. In addition, we test the efficacy of...

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Basic income and a public job offer : complementary policies to reduce poverty and unemployment

FitzRoy, Felix R.; Jin, Jim Y. - 2017

Unconditional basic income, or a job guarantee by government as employer-of-last-resort, are usually discussed as alternative policies, though the first does not provide the benefits of an earned income and a good job to the growing numbers in precarious- or under-employment, while the second...

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Does workfare work well? : the case of the Employment Generation Program for the Poorest in Bangladesh

Cho, Yoonyoung; Ruthbah, Ummul - 2018

Evidence on the effectiveness of workfare as an anti-poverty program in developing countries is weak compared with the …

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