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  • Collapse and Recovery

    How the COVID-19 Pandemic Eroded Human Capital and What to Do about It

    The COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a severe blow to human capital. This report presents new evidence and analysis to provide a comprehensive diagnostic of the effects of the pandemic on human capital outcomes and identify promising policy responses for governments faced with the task of rebuilding human capital in the wake of the pandemic. ... Leer más

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  • Collapse and Recovery

    How the COVID-19 Pandemic Eroded Human Capital and What to Do about It

    Worldwide, the COVID-19 pandemic has been an enormous shock to mortality, economies, and daily life. But what has received insufficient attention is the impact of the pandemic on the accumulation of human capital—the health, education, and skills—of young people. How large was the setback, and how far are we still from a recovery? Collapse and Recovery estimates the impacts of the pandemic on the ... Leer más

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  • Conditional Cash Transfers

    Reducing Present and Future Poverty

    Series series Policy Research Reports
    Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are programs that transfer cash, generally to poor households, on the condition that those households make pre specified investments in the human capital of their children. This overview of the main report summarizes that there is good evidence that CCTs have improved the lives of poor people. Transfers generally have been well targeted to poor households, have ... Leer más

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  • Conditional Cash Transfers: Reducing Present And Future Poverty

    Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs aim to reduce poverty by making welfare programs conditional upon the receivers' actions. That is, the government only transfers the money to persons who meet certain criteria. These criteria may include enrolling children into public schools, getting regular check-ups at the doctor's office, receiving vaccinations, or the like. They have been hailed as a ... Leer más

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    How Latin America and the Caribbean Can Save More and Better

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Why should people - and economies - save? This book on the savings problem in Latin America and the Caribbean suggests that, while saving to survive the bad times is important, saving to thrive in the good times is what really counts. People must save to invest in health and education, live productive and fulfilling lives, and make the most of their retirement years. Firms must save to grow their ... Leer más

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  • Handbook On Poverty And Inequality

    For anyone wanting to learn, in practical terms, how to measure, describe, monitor, evaluate, and analyze poverty, the Handbook is the place to start. Designed initially to support training courses on poverty analysis, it consists of explanatory text with numerous examples, interspersed with multiple-choice questions (to ensure active learning) and combined with extensive practical exercises using ... Leer más

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  • Handbook of Development Economics

    Edición de M.R. Rosenzweig, Dani Rodrick ...
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    What guidance does academic research really provide to economic policy development? The critical and analytical surveys in this volume investigate links between policies and outcomes by surveying work from broad macroeconomic policies to interventions in microfinance. Asserting that there are no universal correspondences between policies and outcomes, contributors demonstrate instead that only an ... Leer más

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  • Equality For Women: Where Do We Stand?

    Upon signing the Millennium Declaration in 2000, the international community committed itself to eight development goals with timebound targets and measurable indicators. The third of these eight goals was to "promote gender equality and empower women". The third Millennium Development Goal (MDG3) in the Millennium Declaration has spurred national and international efforts to improve women's ... Leer más

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  • Public Finance For Poverty Reduction: Concepts And Case Studies From Africa And Latin America

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    This book presents some basic theoretical concepts of public finance with a particular emphasis on its impact poverty reduction. Eight case studies from Latin America and Africa illustrate how these concepts are applied in practice and the implementation issues that emerge. ... Leer más

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  • Good Practices In Health Financing: Lessons From Reforms In Low And Middle-Income Countries

    For humanitarian reasons and the concern for households' economic and health security, the health sector is at the center of global development policy. Developing countries and the international community are scaling up health systems to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and are improving financial protection by securing long-term support for these gains. Yet money alone cannot buy ... Leer más

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  • The Quality Of Life In Latin American Cities: Markets And Perception

    This book explores a new method of monitoring the quality of urban life, combining objective and subjective information to assess quality of life by using the market price of housing and individuals' life satisfaction in six Latin American cities: Bogota, Buenos Aires, Lima, Medellin, Montevideo and San Jose. Housing prices show how the market values characteristics of not only a house itself, but ... Leer más

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  • Global Monitoring Report 2011: Improving the Odds of Achieving the MDGs

    With less than five years left to achieve the MDGs this year's report looks at the prospects and challenges for reaching the goals. It also examines the great diversity of performance across indicators countries and categories of countriesto determine the necessary policies to fill the remaining gaps. ... Leer más

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