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  Child labor, school attendance, and indigenous households: evidence from Mexico

  R. Bando G., L. F. Lopez-Calva, H. A. Patrinos / World Bank, 2005

  This paper looks at the impact of the Mexican conditional cash transfer program PROGESA (now OPORTUNIDADES) on child labour, emphasising the differential impact on indigenous households.
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  Poor people’s knowledge: promoting intellectual property in developing countries

  J.M. Finger, P. Schuler / World Bank, 2004

  This book deals with Intellectual Property rights (IPRs) and the potential for poor people to improve their earnings from their knowledge and skills.
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  More for the poor is less for the poor: the politics of targeting

  L.H. Pritchett, J.B. Gelbach / World Bank, 1997

  This World Bank study assesses the welfare properties of targeted income support transfers when a basic political feasibility condition is imposed on the levels of targeting and taxation. Both economists and political scientists have long recognised the possibility that targeting could undermine political support for redistribution and hence reduce the available budget.
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  Models for recognising indigenous land rights in Latin America

  R. Ortiga / World Bank, 2004

  This paper discusses issues surrounding indigenous land rights, sharing an understanding and information about land tenure and titling within Latin America.
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  Regional Integration and Development (Overview)

  M. Schiff, A. Winters / World Bank, 2003

  This document offers an overview of 'Regional Integration and Development' - a publication that followed a research project on the effects of regional integration on development, carried out at the World Bank.'Regional Integration and Development' deals with the following issues:how to make the most of RIAs the impact of RIAs on investment and foreign direct investment the dy
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  Vouchers for basic education in developing countries: a principal-agent perspective

  V. Gauri, A. Vawda / World Bank, 2003

  This paper assesses the impact of education voucher schemes in a number of countries, and uses a principal-agent framework to suggest what might be expected from voucher programs in developing countries, what kinds of voucher programs might be most useful, and what elements of the institutional infrastructure will be important for their implementation.The paper is structured in four sections: f
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  Incidence analysis of public support to the private education sector in Côte d’Ivoire

  C. Sakellariou, H. A. Patrinos / World Bank, 2004

  This paper analyses the poverty impact of public subsidisation of private schools in Côte d’Ivoire. It attempts to assess how efficiently public spending is targeted to the poor by looking at who benefits from public expenditure on education in different income groups.
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  Education decentralization and accountability relationships in Latin America

  E. di Gropello / World Bank, 2004

  This paper analyses decentralisation reforms in the education sector in Latin America, in particular their status, impact, and ongoing challenges.
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  Environment matters 2004

  World Bank, 2004

  The 2003-04 edition of Environment Matters, a publication by the World Bank Group, focuses on economic growth and the environment. .The Environment Matters report brings together a wide variety of external and internal viewpoints on the challenges ahead and the progress taking place.
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  Why should we care about child labor?: the education, labor market, and health consequences of child labor

  K. Beegle, R. Dehejia, R. Gatti / World Bank, 2005

  This paper examines the consequences of child labour on the children’s education, wages, and health.

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