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    Innovative features in conditional cash transfers: an impact evaluation of Chile Solidario on households and children

    UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2012
    Chile Solidario is an avant garde CCT in the Latin American context, introducing innovative features which are aimed at specifically addressing the multidimensional nature of poverty, considered not only as a consequence of the lack of income, but also as a result of low levels of human and social capital, and the vulnerability of a household to shocks.
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    Taxes, transfers, and income redistribution in Latin America

    World Bank, 2012
    How much reduction in inequality and poverty does Latin America accomplish through taxes and transfers? How progressive are revenue-collection and social-spending patterns? This new 'Inequality in Focus' Brief from the World Bank's Poverty Reduction and Equity Department explores these questions.
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    Direct distribution of oil revenues in Venezuela: a viable alternative?

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2012
    Venezuela is the textbook case of a resource-rich country. Between 1950 and 2008, oil generated over $1 trillion of income for the state. The country’s proven reserves, at 7 million barrels per Venezuelan, are the largest in the world and will last 270 years at current production rates.
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    Financing agricultural value chains in Latin America: barriers and opportunities in Mexico, Peru and Honduras

    Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2014
    Small and medium commercial family farms in Latin America represent a large and important portion of the agricultural sector, with significant potential for catalyzing economic growth in the region. Despite this potential, small and medium producers often face several key constraints when looking to traditional lenders for credit.
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    Informality and inclusive growth

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2015
    This paper is a working document, and the first stage in the conduct of a joint research in the topic of informality and inclusive growth. The research will study the cases of Colombia and South Africa and analyse to what extent these lessons can be applied to other countries in Africa and Latin America.
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    Local Content Frameworks in Latin American and African oil and gas sector

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2015
    The limited nature of mineral resources and demands of the extractive sector require policymakers to find mechanisms to maximise the sector’s benefits.
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    Work, family and public policy changes in Latin America: equity, maternalism and co-responsibility

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2014
    Taking account of the substantial increase in female labour market participation that has occurred throughout the Latin American region, this article describes policies adopted with the aim of reconciling work and family responsibilities between 2003 and 2013, and the implications of their design for socioeconomic and gender equity.
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    5 years in Juntos: new evidence on the Program’s short and long-term impacts

    Centro de Investigaciones Sociólogicas Económicas Políticas y Antropológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2013
    his study presents results from a quantitative impact evaluation of the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme, Juntos, in Peru. Using instrumental variable techniques, it estimates the overall impact of Juntos five years after its initial rollout and explores the differential impacts among beneficiaries according to the length of time they spent in the programme.
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    Conditions for success in implementing CCT programs: lessons for Asia from Latin America and the Caribbean

    Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2014
    Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs have become the main social assistance interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), reaching 129 million individuals in 18 countries in 2010.
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    FIELD Brief 18: Increasing impact with savings-linked conditional cash transfers – experiences from Latin America

    microLINKS,, 2012
    Government social protection programs in 30 countries provide conditional cash transfers (CCTs) to economically disadvantaged families who meet certain requirements (conditions), such as sending their children to school regularly, participating in nutrition programs, and visiting health clinics.

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