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| Coady, David P.; Harris, Rebecca Lee. |
| It is now widely accepted that social safety nets play a crucial role in any comprehensive poverty alleviation strategy. However, many people perceive that existing social safety nets are not cost effective because they are both badly targeted to poor households and often involve inefficient financing policies. Consequently, many developing-country governments and international development institutions have come to favor direct transfer instruments such as cash transfers or subsidized food rations. But most evaluations of such programs focus solely on the partial equilibrium impacts of program targeting outcomes, and those that focus on the general equilibrium impacts tend to concentrate on their efficiency implications with very limited analysis of income... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Economic assistance; Domestic; Mexico; Evaluation; Public welfare; Agricultural and Food Policy. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37893 |
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| Maluccio, John A.; Flores, Rafael. |
| In the 1990s Mexico launched a new social program—PROGRESA (now known as Oportunidades). As a conditional cash transfer program, PROGRESA integrated investment in human capital with access to a social safety net. From 1998 to 2000, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) assisted in evaluating the program. Much of the ensuing research is summarized in IFPRI Research Report 139 by Emmanuel Skoufias. Since the inception of PROGRESA, several countries, particularly in Latin America, have implemented similar programs. One reason for the growing popularity of these programs is that, by encompassing various dimensions of human capital, including nutritional status, health, and education, they are able to influence many of the key indicators... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Red de Protección Social (Nicaragua); Evaluation; Economic assistance; Domestic; Nicaragua; Public welfare; Child welfare; Poverty; Agricultural and Food Policy. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37889 |
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