Pitfalls in Targeting

Almost three years after the government launched two hunger-mitigation initiatives--the Food-for-School and Tindahan Natin programs--questions are being raised on whether these programs have adequately met their objectives. Did the programs benefit their intended beneficiaries? How well was the targeting for the programs made? This Policy Notes assesses the targeting rules used for the two programs.Food-for-School Program (FSP), conditional cash transfers, leakage rate, Tindahan Natin Program, hunger mitigation, food price subsidy

Perfil agrossocioeconômico dos produtores de coco do Município de Caucaia-CE.

O objetivo deste trabalho é que o levantamento de problemas enfrentados pelos cocoicultores possa fornecer subsídios aos órgãos de pesquisa, de fomento, desenvolvimento e de assistência técnica e informações agrossocioeconômicas dos produtores referentes às características de produção, seu perfil tecnológico, estrutura fundiária, disponibilidade e uso de mão-de-obra, grau de capitalização, disponibilidade e qualidade dos recursos naturais, ocupação do espaço agrícola e limitações geoambientais, encontradas no município de Caucaia-CE, mediante aplicação de questionários junto a uma amostra de 50 cocoicultores.bitstream/item/91677/1/CPATC-DOC.-15-00.pd

Shell-model half-lives for r-process waiting point nuclei including first-forbidden contributions

We have performed large-scale shell-model calculations of the half-lives and neutron-branching probabilities of the r-process waiting point nuclei at the magic neutron numbers N=50, 82, and 126. The calculations include contributions from allowed Gamow-Teller and first-forbidden transitions. We find good agreement with the measured half-lives for the N=50 nuclei with charge numbers Z=28-32 and for the N=82 nuclei 129Ag and 130Cd. The contribution of forbidden transitions reduce the half-lives of the N=126 waiting point nuclei significantly, while they have only a small effect on the half-lives of the N=50 and 82 r-process nuclei.Comment: 14 pages, 17 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.

Benefit Incidence of Public Spending on Health in the Philippines

Directing government subsidies to social services such as health care is expected to bring about positive external/social benefits and improve equity in access to health services. In general, government spending on health is envisioned to improve the well-being of beneficiaries and enhance their capability to earn income in the future. Given this perspective, the question that this paper addresses is: to what extent have the poor benefited from publicly provided health services? In particular, it attempts to assess whether government expenditure on health sector had a redistributive impact by making use of benefit incidence analysis

Who Benefits from the Food-for-School Program and Tindahan Natin Program: Lessons in Targeting

The prevalence of hunger in the Philippines prompted the government to launch its hunger mitigation initiative in November 2005. The initiative consisted of two programs: the Food-for-School Program (FSP) and the Tindahan Natin Program (TNP). The FSP belongs to a class of social safety nets called conditional cash or in-kind transfers. There is a growing interest on these instruments worldwide because of evidence that they have not only been useful in providing assistance to poor families but more so because they have been found effective in securing investments in human capital among the poor. On the other hand, the TNP is a targeted food price subsidy program. Like other food price subsidy programs, it operates by lowering the price of certain food items. The lower food price effectively results in increased purchasing power that translates into an increase in the real income of beneficiaries. The budget allocation for these programs has been increasing in recent years. One interesting question to ask now is: Who benefits from the governments hunger mitigation program? The answer to this question has a large bearing on both the effectiveness and efficiency of the program. Given this perspective, the paper assesses the 1) distribution of the benefits from the FSP and TNP in 2006, and 2) implications on targeting of the use of public schools and day care centers as distribution points. In the process, it also draws some lessons in targeting

Realocação espacial da agricultura no âmbito de microrregiões: Bahia, 1990 e 2005.

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Mudanças na geografia agrícola no âmbito de microrregiões: Rio Grande do Norte, 1990 e 2004.

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Nova fronteira da atividade canavieira nos principais municípios produtores do estado do Rio Grande do Norte; 1990, 1995, 2000 e 2005.

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Aspectos agroeconômicos da cultura do milho: características e evolução da cultura no Estado da Paraíba entre 1990 e 2003.

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Mudança na geografia agrícola: a atividade canavieira nos principais municípios produtores do estado da Bahia.

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