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Cruzatti, John; Rieger, Matthias - 2024

A substantial share of the world's children reside in disaster-prone areas and suffer from stunted growth. Child growth in the first 1000 days of life can falter depending on health endowments and investments. We investigate growth faltering and catch-up in children exposed to comparable...

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Long-Term Impacts of Growth and Development Monitoring: Evidence from Routine Health Examinations in Early Childhood

Liang, Yinhe; Peng, Xiaobo; Sun, Meiping Aggie - 2024

This paper examines the long-term impacts of growth and development monitoring in early childhood. For this purpose, we evaluate a pediatric healthcare program, the Systematic Management of Children (SMC), which offers growth and development monitoring through routine health checkups for all...

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Inequality, transfers and growth : new evidence from the economic transition in Poland

Keane, Michael P.; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2002

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Growing Out of Poverty : Trends and Patterns of Urban Poverty in China 1988-2002

Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - 2021

This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period regardless of the exact location of the poverty line....

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Growing out of poverty : trends and patterns of urban poverty in China 1988 - 2002

Appleton, Simon (contributor); Song, Lina (contributor); … - 2008

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Inequality, transfers and growth : new evidence from the economic transition in Poland

Keane, Michael P.; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2002

This paper analyzes the evolution of inequality in Poland during the economic transition that began in 1989-90. Using micro data from the Household Budget Surveys, we find that, after a brief spike in 1989, income and consumption inequality actually declined to below pretransition levels during...

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Transfers, Social Safety Nets, and Economic Growth

Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2006

This paper analyses the role of social safety nets in the form of redistributional transfers and wage subsidies. It is argued that public welfare programs can be viewed as a crime-preventing or disruption-preventing devices because they tend to increase the opportunity cost of engaging in crime...

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Inequality, Transfers and Growth : New Evidence from the Economic Transition in Poland

Keane, Michael P.; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2021

This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that inequality in Poland increased markedly during the economic transition. Income and consumption inequality actually declined in 1990-92 and rose only moderately above pre-transition levels by 1997. However, inequality in labor earnings increased...

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Antipoverty Transfers and Inclusive Growth in Brazil

Barrientos, Armando - 2014

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Push or pull? Drivers of female labor force participation during India's economic boom

Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - 2012

In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 … minority of India's women. So despite India's economic boom, it appears that for all but the very well educated, labor market …

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