Income gains to the poor from workfare - estimates for Argentina's TRABAJAR Program
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Payment Systems&Infrastructure; Poverty Monitoring&Analysis; Services&Transfers to Poor; Health Economics&Finance; Poverty Impact Evaluation; Poverty Monitoring&Analysis; Poverty Impact Evaluation; Health Economics&Finance; Rural Poverty Reduction; Services&Transfers to Poor;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-1999-08-04 (Agricultural Economics)
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