El presente articulo revisa conceptos teoricos sobre el gasto social y desarrolla los dos posibles "errores" de un programa social: excluir a quienes lo necesitan e incluir a quienes no lo requieren. Las transferencias de recursos tienen "efectos incentivos", los cuales generan en la poblacion...

In Nepal, both early marriage and motherhood still place adolescents and their children at a great disadvantage. In 2011, one-third of girls aged 15-19 were already married. About 60 percent of them were pregnant or had at least one child, and one in ten had two living children (Nepal...

This book is about 24 developing countries that have embarked on the journey towards universal health coverage (UHC) following a bottom-up approach, with a special focus on the poor and vulnerable, through a systematic data collection that provides practical insights to policymakers and...

The plan nacer program was designed by the Argentine ministry of health to provide health coverage to uninsured women during their pregnancies and for an additional 45 days after giving birth, as well as to children under the age of six. In doing so, it focuses on the most vulnerable...

Se muestran los resultados empíricos del modelo.

Se revisa la teoría y evidencia de la evolución de nutrición infantil.