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  The impact of oportunidades on human capital and income distribution: a top-down/bottom-up approach

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2013

  In an effort to inform social policy in Mexico, this paper analyses the effects of a major social program on school attendance and household income distribution, accounting for its partial and general equilibrium effects.
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  Schooling Outcomes in the Philippines, 1988– 2008: Impacts of Changes in Household Income and the Implementation of the Free Public Secondary Education Act

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2014

  In the Philippines, no assessment has been done yet on the impacts of changes in household income and the free public secondary education act (Republic Act 6655) on the outcomes of education.
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  The Sponsored Program of the Philippine National Health Insurance – Analyses of the Actual Coverage and Variations across Regions and Provinces

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2014

  This study established the breadth of socialized Philippine health insurance, known as the PhilHealth Sponsored Program. It examined the extent of coverage relative to its target "poor" population, how much coverage rates varied across provinces and the factors likely to explain variation.
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  The Impact of the Cheaper Medicines Act on Households in Metro Manila: A Qualitative Study

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2014

  This research forms part of the "Health Systems Research Management in the Department of Health (DOH)", a project funded by the DOH and implemented by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies.
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  Human development and public policy in India: inception report

  Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2013

  The India Human Development Survey I (2004‐5) and II (2011‐12) form part of a collaborative research program between researchers from the National Council of Applied Economic Research and University of Maryland. The goal of this program is to document changes in daily lives of Indian households in a society undergoing rapid transition.
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  Sustainable and inclusive growth in Africa: industrialization a must

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2014

  Africa’s economic performance in the last fifteen years has been characterized as “impressive” due to enhanced real GDP and per capita GDP growth. This positive growth has been due in part to the rise of emerging economies, whose demand for raw materials represents a major opportunity for resource-rich African countries.
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  The role of targeting in service delivery to vulnerable populations – the FANRPAN Household Vulnerability Index (HVI) - a synthesis of three country reports

  Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2009

  The objective of the Household Vulnerability Index (HVI) pilot study, conducted in Lesotho, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, was to further develop and test the HVI as a statistical tool for quantifying household vulnerability resulting from shocks such as HIV and AIDS. Key outputs from the study were a refined method for constructing the HVI and a computerised tool for its computation.
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  Inequality and economic marginalisation: How the structure of the economy impacts on opportunities on the margins

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2011

  In the face of a long-standing unemployment crisis that increasingly threatens social and economic stability, employment has at last taken centre stage in South African policy, and with this, focus is shifting to the structural constraints on employment creation within the economy. The New Growth Path, approved by Cabinet in November 2010, starts to tackle these issues.
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  An appraisal of local economic development impact assessment methodologies in the Context of the Community Work Programme (CWP)

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2013

  The Community Work Programme (CWP) aims to provide an employment ‘safety net’ that provides access to a minimum level of regular work on an on-going and predictable basis for those who require it the most unemployed and underemployed people at the local community level.
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  Predicted poverty impacts of expanding the Community Work Program me in South Africa: an analysis of income poverty and inequality

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2012

  The Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS), which guarantees low-skilled work to poor, unemployed individuals and in the process contributes to the creation of productive community assets and services.

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