Poverty - Colombia
Qualitative evaluation of the Poverty-Alleviation Program Produciendo por mi Futuro in Colombia
... a poverty-reduction intervention, implemented in Colombia by Prosperidad Social, which is based on the graduation programs initially developed by the BRAC Development Institute of Bangladesh and later by ...
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Forced displacement and multidimensional poverty in Antioquia, Colombia: an assessment by means of a Seemingly Unrelated Regression
... of poverty (World Bank, 2011), whereas poverty is concentrating in countries with civil conflicts, ethnic confrontations or organized crime (The Economist, ...on poverty. The case of Antioquia, in ...
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Anti-Poverty Programs and Presidential Election Outcomes: Familias en Acción in Colombia
... across municipalities. Three variables are used to control for each municipality’s institutional capacity: the number of bank offices (x 1,000 population), the number of public schools (x 1,000 children in school-age), ...
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The determinants of poverty in Colombia - special emphasis on the rural population
... of poverty are the gender of the household head and presence of a member with a disability in a ...In Colombia, women earn ...in Colombia had a tertiary education institution (Ministry of Education, ...
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Equity in the education system and student effort - a lesson from Korea for poverty reduction in Colombia
... strengthen poverty reduction efforts in Colombia has ...placed poverty reduction and alleviation efforts at the core of public policy, have been ...Extreme Poverty (Agencia Nacional para la ...
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Conflict-induced poverty: Evidence from Colombia
... and poverty, or the presence of omitted variables, it is difficult to identify the impact of conflict on ...of Colombia. In particular, using the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) at the ...
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Poverty impacts of agricultural policy adjustments in an opening economy: the case of Colombia
... rural poverty should be decreasing in Colombia; however, this is not necessarily the ...persistent poverty. The poverty head count has remained in the range between 51% and 58% during the ...
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Risk Preferences Under Extreme Poverty: A Field Experiment
... extreme poverty line (the price of a food basket providing 2,100 calories and basic vitamins that takes into account tastes and what food is available) calculated for Colombia in 2005 by the ...
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Sinergia cognitiva y pobrezaSynergy cognitive and poverty
... Para tal efecto, se implementa un diseño metodo- lógico de cuatro etapas. En la primera se realiza un análisis comparativo de ingresos y gastos de una muestra representativa de beneficiarios de progra- mas sociales en un ...
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DEVELOPMENT CO-OPERATION REPORT 2013: ENDING POVERTY
... I n 2012, members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) provided USD 125.9 billion in net official development assistance (ODA), representing 0.29% of their combined gross national income (GNI). This was a drop ...
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The global burden of neglected tropical diseases
... Controlling or eliminating NTDs lifts millions of persons out of poverty by increasing access to education because NTDs infect more than 400 million school-aged children throughout the developing world. Treating ...
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Labor informality effects of a poverty-alleviation program
... large poverty-alleviation program, named Programa Jefes de Hogar (henceforth, ...that poverty was closely related to unemployment led to include the unemployment requirement as a targeting ...
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International market access and poverty in Argentina
... he poverty impact s, in developing count ries, of agricult ural t rade reforms in t he developed ...measurable poverty e ect s: on t he poverty line, t hrough changes in t he prices of consumpt ion ...
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Open Journal Systems
... Indonesian poverty line assumes that 95 percent of the expenditures of the rural poor and 85 percent of the urban poor are on food, and that for both groups 81 percent of the required minimum of 2100 calories is ...
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POVERTY REDUCTION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA
... In particular, the coefficient implies that being highly indebted will increase the extent of a country’s human poverty by 7.04%. This finding supports the notion that most African countries service their external ...
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GLOBAL MONITORING REPORT 2013: RURAL-URBAN DYNAMICS AND THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
... rural poverty following India’s economic liberalization in the early 1990s, with urban development linked to higher demand for rural products and more options for rural nonfarm diversification (World Bank ...
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ENVIRONMENTAL FISCAL REFORM FOR POVERTY REDUCTION
... These include a taxes on natural resource extraction such as fisheries and forests, b cost recovery and pricing measures to improve access to basic services such as water and energy, c t[r] ...
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LINKING POVERTY REDUCTION AND WATER MANAGEMENT
... nation’s poverty reduction ...wider poverty reduction processes – has been ...to poverty reduction? Coherent and effective approaches are needed to address the challenges and mobilise the ...
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A methodology for assessing poverty in Moldavia (Romania)
... Community poverty, analyzed as the sum of several types of social and territorial deprivation, is the geographical expression of various processes and phenomena, commonly the object of sociological and economic ...
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The new poverty in the labour market
... (in-work poverty risk), es decir, la tasa de riesgo de pobreza de las personas que están trabajando y que tienen unos ingresos disponibles que se sitúan por debajo del 60 por ciento de la media de los ingresos de ...
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