Does Child Care Pay? Labor Force Participation and Earnings: Effects on Access to Child Care in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro

This study undertakes an econometric analysis of data on the use of child care services and labor force participation drawn from a survey of 1,720 households in 15 `favelas,` or slums, in Rio de Janeiro. The analysis examines the impact that access to child care services has on female labor force participation and final earnings.

El Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo y la reducción de la pobreza: Visión general

En el presente documento se ofrece una visión general de la forma en que las actividades crediticias y no crediticias del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo pueden contribuir a reducir la pobreza en América Latina y el Caribe, y se hacen sugerencias para las actividades futuras del Banco en este campo. En la primera parte del documento se proporciona el telón de fondo empírico y analítico de acuerdo con el cual se pueden analizar las iniciativas para la reducción de la pobreza. En la segunda parte del documento se evalúan las numerosas formas en que el BID está contribuyendo a la reducción de la pobreza en América Latina y el Caribe. El documento concluye refiriéndose a áreas que merecen mayor atención en el futuro y que pueden mejorar la capacidad del Banco para reducir la pobreza en la región.Desarrollo y crecimiento económicos, Pobreza, Servicios financieros, financiamiento, reducción de la pobreza, pobreza, América Latina y el Caribe

Does Child Care Pay?: Labor Force Participation and Earnings Effects of Access to Child Care in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro

This study undertakes an econometric analysis of data on the use of child care services and labor force participation drawn from a survey of 1,720 households in 15 'favelas' or slums, in Rio de Janeiro. The analysis examines the impact that access to child care services has on female labor force participation and final earnings

Good Practices in Poverty Targeting in IDB Projects in 1997

Good practices in targeting, as highlighted here, with an additional effort to go beyond the letter of the law in the identification of project beneficiaries. Effective and efficient targeting mechanisms attempt to better link the project's specific purposes with its intended group of beneficiaries. The IDB projects listed in this document all represent cases where the design of the operation made extra efforts to better target the poor that go beyond the PTI Classification Criteria. These design elements include a variety of instruments, such as the careful definition of beneficiary eligibility and selection criteria, use of poverty maps, application of qualitative methodologies, and more rigorous analysis of survey data to determine appropriate types of project interventions.

Program for the improvement of surveys and the measurement of living conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean (ISLC

Includes bibliograph

Empowering women to achieve food security: Labor markets and employment

Non-PRIFPRI1; Gender; 2020DG

How Early Childhood Interventions Can Reduce Inequality: An Overview of Recent Findings

Early Childhood Interventions (ECI) are ideally designed to achieve a series of mutually reinforcing objectives with the overarching goal of helping to improve equality of opportunity for children in poverty. In this discussion the authors analize programs targeted to overcome some or all of the cognitive, emotional, and resource limitations that may characterize the environments of disadvantaged children during the first several years of life. Section II of this paper presents a review of findings that attempt to measure the short-term or immediate benefits of early childhood interventions. Section III reviews the literature that addresses the longer term benefits of early childhood interventions, such as program participants' improved school performance and earnings opportunities in later years, and a reduced probability for program participants to later engage in criminal or violent acts. Section IV summarizes the economic rationale for public support of ECI programs. In the final Section V we address some of the policy and operational issues involved in designing and implementing early childhood intervenion programs.

Good Practices in Poverty Targeting in IDB Projects in 1997

Good practices in targeting, as highlighted here, with an additional effort to go beyond the letter of the law in the identification of project beneficiaries. Effective and efficient targeting mechanisms attempt to better link the project's specific purposes with its intended group of beneficiaries. The IDB projects listed in this document all represent cases where the design of the operation made extra efforts to better target the poor that go beyond the PTI Classification Criteria. These design elements include a variety of instruments, such as the careful definition of beneficiary eligibility and selection criteria, use of poverty maps, application of qualitative methodologies, and more rigorous analysis of survey data to determine appropriate types of project interventions.Poverty, Investment, Poverty, inequality, poverty erradication