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Searching with a thematic focus on Livelihoods, Livelihoods social protection, Cash transfers, Food security

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  In-kind transfers and household food consumption: implications for targeted food programs in Bangladesh

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper examines the impact of wheat transfers and cash incomes on wheat consumption and wheat markets. It uses data from a 1998/99 survey of rural households in Bangladesh to econometrically estimate marginal propensities to consume (MPCs) out of wheat transfers in several distribution programs.
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  Does subsidized childcare help poor working women in urban areas?: evaluation of a government-sponsored program in Guatemala City

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper presents an evaluation and impact assessment (1998) of the urban Hogares Comunitarios Program (HCP), Guatemala, a government-sponsored pilot programme designed to alleviate poverty by providing working parents with low-cost, quality childcare within their community.
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  More calories or more diversity?: an econometric evaluation of the impact of the PROGRESA and PROCAMPO transfer programs on food security in rural Mexico

  Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2002

  This paper examines the PROGRESA and PROCAMPO cash transfer programs in Mexico and evaluates their impact on household food security and nutrition.
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  Can social safety nets contribute to poverty reduction in Africa?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2001

  What effect do social safety nets have on poverty – on food security, trade, gender, and social relations? A recent Institute of Development Studies report suggests that the impact is far more wide-ranging and profound than previously thought. Even tiny transfers make a significant difference to the livelihoods of the very poor.
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  Can Robust Pro-Female Policies be Identified When the True Model of the Household is Unknown?

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998

  This paper seeks to identify parameter changes which are robust in the sense that they benefit women relative to men in a wide range of household models. The models considered are unitary, Nash- bargaining and non-cooperative with and without cash transfers. Reductions in the relative price of ‘female' consumer goods prices are robust; increases in relative wages are highly non-robust.

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