Essays about: "Cash Transfer"

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1. 16. Cash is Queen - Impacts of conditional cash transfers on women’s empowerment

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Linn Hedman; Clara Leandersson; [2017]
   Keywords : Conditional Cash Transfers; Women’s Empowerment; Peru; Propensity Score Matching; Difference-in-Differences; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates the causal effects of the Peruvian conditional cash transfer (CCT) program, Juntos, on women’s empowerment defined along the psychological and familial dimensions. Usually, the main goal of CCTs is to reduce poverty. READ MORE

3. 17. Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and Inequality of Opportunity. A case study: Juntos in Peru

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Patricia Festa Secanella; [2017]
   Keywords : Juntos; Inequality of opportunity; NBI; conditional cash transfers; Peru; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Inequality of Opportunity has recently emerged in the development agenda. The unequal access to opportunities can reinforce poverty and inequality traps. Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs have consolidated as an important policy tool to fight against poverty. In addition, they have a great potential to equalize opportunities. READ MORE

4. 18. Bitcoin a favourable instrument for diversification? : A quantitative study on the relations between Bitcoin and global stock markets

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Företagsekonomi

   Author : Dominik Krause; Nga Pham; [2017]
   Keywords : Bitcoin; virtual currency; Garch model; Value at Risk; portfolio optimization;

   Abstract : Bitcoin is a peer to peer (p2p) payment cash system and an unregulated digital currency that is primarily designed and developed in 2008 without tender legal status. Bitcoin is so-called cryptocurrency because it uses the cryptographic function in order to secure the creation and transfer of money. READ MORE

5. 19. Implications of encampment for the potential of Cash Based Transfer assistance

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

   Author : Nephele de Bruin; [2017]
   Keywords : Cash Based Transfer assistance; encampment policy; refugee camps; Tanzania; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This study explores the implications of an encampment policy - criminalising refugees’ mobility beyond the borders of a camp - for the potential of Cash Based Transfer assistance in protracted refugee situations. As the success of Cash Based Transfer assistance implies market availability and access to commodities, and certain interaction between the host community and refugee population, it is argued to be in conflict with what an encampment policy entails. READ MORE

6. 20. Intergenerational Mobility and Education - Evidence from Latin America

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik

   Author : Linnéa Frid; Désirée Hermann; [2016-07-05]
   Keywords : intergenerational mobility; social mobility; inequality; education; Latin America; gender; ethnicity;

   Abstract : The main objective of this study is to investigate the extent of social mobility in Latin America. Using educational attainment as a proxy for socioeconomic status in 18 Latin American countries, this study estimates ordinary-least-squared regressions of the persistence of educational attainment across generations. READ MORE