Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa

UNU-WIDER

Research Fellow

Katajanokanlaituri 6B

Helsinki, FIN-00160

Finland

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Social Assistance in Developing Countries Database Version 5.0

Brooks World Poverty Institute Working Paper, Chronic Poverty Research Centre Working Paper
Number of pages: 137 Posted: 05 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 31 Jul 2014
Armando Barrientos, Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa and Mathilde Maitrot
Global Development Institute, UNU-WIDER and University of Bath
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Social Protection, Social Assistance, developing countries, poverty

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Mexico’s Progresa-Oportunidades and the Emergence of Social Assistance in Latin America

BWPI Working Paper No. 142
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 23 Mar 2011
Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa
UNU-WIDER
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social assistance, poverty, human development, Latin America, Mexico

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Quantitative Analysis in Social Sciences: An Brief Introduction for Non-Economists

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 24 May 2012 Last Revised: 23 Jul 2014
Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa
UNU-WIDER
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Social Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa: Will the Green Shoots Blossom?

Brooks World Poverty Institute Working Paper No. 116
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 02 May 2010
Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa, Armando Barrientos, David Hulme and Sam Hickey
UNU-WIDER, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester - Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM) and University of Manchester
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Social Protection, Poverty, Transfer Programmes, Sub-Saharan Africa

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Poverty and Wellbeing Impacts of Microfinance: What Do We Know?

WIDER Working Paper 190/2017; ISBN 978-92-9256-416-2
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 29 Nov 2017
Mathilde Maitrot and Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa
University of York and UNU-WIDER
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microfinance, poverty, wellbeing, impact evaluation, developing countries, systematic review

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The Negotiated Politics of Social Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa

WIDER Working Paper 34/2018
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 23 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2018
Sam Hickey, Tom Lavers, Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa and Jeremy Seekings
University of Manchester, Global Development Institute, UNU-WIDER and University of Cape Town (UCT)
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social protection, social assistance, politics, sub-Saharan Africa, international development organizations

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Social Transfers and Chronic Poverty: Objectives, Design, Reach and Impact

Chronic Poverty Research Centre Report
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Armando Barrientos and Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa
Global Development Institute and UNU-WIDER
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social protection, chronic poverty, programme design

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The Impact of Credit on Income Poverty in Urban Mexico. An Endogeneity-Corrected Estimation

Sheffield Economic Research Paper (SERP) No. 2007005
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 03 Apr 2007
Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa
UNU-WIDER
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endogeneity, selection bias, microfinance, credit, income poverty, impact analysis, Mexico

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Wider Impacts of Microcredit: Evidence from Labor and Human Capital in Urban Mexico

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 29 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2014
Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa and Paul Mosley
UNU-WIDER and University of Sheffield - Department of Economics
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microcredit, labor, children's schooling, Mexico

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What Works to Improve the Quality of Student Learning in Developing Countries?

WIDER Working Paper 2015/033
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 19 Mar 2015
Serena Masino and Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa
University of Oxford and UNU-WIDER
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ducation quality, student learning, education policy, developing countries, systematic review

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Social Spending and Aggregate Welfare in Developing and Transition Economies

WIDER Working Paper 2014/082
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 01 May 2014 Last Revised: 31 Jul 2014
Fiseha Gebregziabher and Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa
University of Copenhagen - Department of Economics and UNU-WIDER
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Social spending, human development, aggregate welfare, child mortality, developing countries

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Social Service Delivery and Access to Financial Innovation. The Impact of Oportunidades’ Electronic Payment System in Mexico

World Institute for Development Economics Research Working Paper Series No. 2014/034
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 07 Feb 2014
Serena Masino and Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa
University of Manchester and UNU-WIDER
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financial inclusion, social service delivery, Oportunidades, conditional cash transfers, quasi-experimental design, Mexico

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Global Interpersonal Inequality: Trends and Measurement

WIDER Working Paper Series 2014/004
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 11 Jan 2014
Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa, Laurence S. J. Roope and Finn Tarp
UNU-WIDER, University of Oxford - Health Economics Research Centre (HERC) and University of Copenhagen - Department of Economics
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global interpersonal inequality, inequality, inequality measurement

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Poverty, Inequality and Social Protection in Myanmar

Development Economics Research Group Working Paper Series 11-2021
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 27 Aug 2021
Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa and Finn Tarp
UNU-WIDER and University of Copenhagen - Department of Economics
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social protection, poverty, inequality, decomposition, benefit incidence analysis

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Campaign Externalities, Programmatic Spending, and Voting Preferences in Rural Mexico: The Case of Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera Programme

WIDER Working Paper 2018/27
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 19 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2018
Dragan Filipovich, Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa and Alma Santillán Hernández
Universidad Rafael Landivar, UNU-WIDER and Autonomous University of Hidalgo State
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conditional cash transfers, information externalities, Mexico, rural poverty, voting behaviour

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Microcredit, Labour, and Poverty Impacts in Urban Mexico

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 22 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 08 Jan 2014
Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa and Paul Mosley
UNU-WIDER and University of Sheffield - Department of Economics
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Mexico, microcredit, labour, poverty

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Poverty Dynamics and Programme Graduation from Social Protection. A Transitional Model for Mexico's Oportunidades Programme

WIDER Working Paper Series 2014/109
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 10 Sep 2014
Juan Miguel Villa and Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa
University of Manchester - Global Development Institute and UNU-WIDER
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poverty dynamics, social protection, conditional cash transfers, Markovian models, Mexico, Oportunidades

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What Can Experiments Tell Us About How to Improve Governance?

WIDER Working Paper No. 2013/077
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 23 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2014
Rachel M. Gisselquist and Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa
United Nations - World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER) and UNU-WIDER
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randomised control trials, governance, development

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Global Inequality in Length of Life: 1950–2015

WIDER Working Paper 192/2017; ISBN 978-92-9256-418-6
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 29 Nov 2017
Vanesa Jordá and Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa
University of Cantabria and UNU-WIDER
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inequality, lifespan, mortality rates, life expectancy

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Ethnic Heterogeneity and Public Goods Provision in Zambia: Further Evidence of a Subnational ‘Diversity Dividend’

WIDER Working Paper WP/2014/162
Number of pages: 87 Posted: 19 Dec 2014
Rachel M. Gisselquist, Stefan Leiderer and Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa
United Nations - World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER), German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval) and UNU-WIDER
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ethnic diversity, government performance, education, health, Zambia

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The Long(er)-Term Impacts of Chile Solidario on Human Capital and Labour Income

WIDER Working Paper 201/2017; ISBN 978-92-9256-427-8
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 22 Dec 2017
Guido Neidhoefer and Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa
Free University of Berlin (FUB) - Division of Economics and UNU-WIDER
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The Effects of an HIV and AIDS Project on Migrants at Source and Destination Sites in Nepal, Bangladesh and India: Findings from a Quasi-Experimental Study

ODI Research Paper, July 2014
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 02 Sep 2014
Fiona Samuels, Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa, Mirza Sultana, Prokriti Nokrek, Navneet Kaur, Nabesh Bohidar and Umesh Gahatraj
Overseas Development Institute (ODI), UNU-WIDER, CARE - Bangladesh, CARE - Bangladesh, CARE India, CARE India and CARE Nepal
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Migration, HIV/AIDS, public health, vulnerability, Nepal, Bangladesh, India, quasi-experimental design

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Smoothing or Strengthening the ‘Great Gatsby Curve’? The Intergenerational Impact of China's New Rural Pension Scheme

WIDER Working Paper 199/2017
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 05 Dec 2017
Jing You and Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa
Renmin University of China and UNU-WIDER
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China, Intergenerational Mobility, Pension, Quantile Treatment Effect, Wealth

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What Do We Know About Non-Clinical Interventions for Preventable and Treatable Childhood Diseases in Developing Countries?

WIDER Working Paper Series No. 2013/087
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 15 Sep 2013
Maureen Seguin and Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and UNU-WIDER
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health policy, respiratory infections, diarrhoeal diseases, children, developing countries, systematic review

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Assessing Efficiency of Input Utilization in Wheat Production in Uzbekistan

In: Lamers, J. P., Khamzina, A., Rudenko, I., & Vlek, P. L. Restructuring land allocation, water use and agricultural value chains, Technologies, policies and practices for the lower Amudarya region, 2015
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 29 Jul 2015
Aziz Karimov and Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center and UNU-WIDER
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wheat production, technical efficiency, data envelopment analysis, Central Asia

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Fiscal Policy, State Building and Economic Development

WIDER Working Paper 2018/5
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 30 Jan 2018
Tony Addison, Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa and Jukka Pirttila
United Nations University, UNU-WIDER and United Nations - World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER)
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Tax policy, economic development, developing countries

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Schooling and Labour Market Impacts of Bolivia's Bono Juancito Pinto

WIDER Working Paper 2018/36
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 16 Apr 2018
Carla Canelas and Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa
Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne - Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne (CES) and UNU-WIDER
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Bolivia, Child Labour, Conditional Cash Transfers, Schooling

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The Impacts of the Food, Fuel and Financial Crises on Households in Nigeria: A Retrospective Approach for Research Enquiry

WIDER Working Paper 2013/058
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 02 Jun 2013
Blessing M. Chiripanhura and Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa
Polytechnic of Namibia and UNU-WIDER
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food, fuel, financial crisis, poverty, vulnerability, sub-Saharan Africa, Nigeria

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How Polarized Is the Global Income Distribution?

WIDER Working Paper Series, 2018/3
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 30 Jan 2018
Laurence S. J. Roope, Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa and Finn Tarp
University of Oxford - Health Economics Research Centre (HERC), UNU-WIDER and University of Copenhagen - Department of Economics
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polarization, bipolarization, global polarization, global inequality, polarization measures

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Aid, Political Business Cycles and Growth in Africa

WIDER Working Paper 2014/145
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 11 Nov 2014
Blessing M. Chiripanhura and Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa
Polytechnic of Namibia and UNU-WIDER
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aid, growth, institutional quality, political business cycles, Africa

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Global Inequality: How Large is the Effect of Top Incomes?

WIDER Working Paper 94/2016
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 05 Dec 2017
Vanesa Jordá and Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa
University of Cantabria and UNU-WIDER
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Inequality, Top Incomes, Income Distribution, Truncated Lorenz Curves

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Redefining Poverty in China and India: Making Growth More Inclusive, Part 2

UNU-WIDER Angle 02/2012
Posted: 16 Nov 2014
Tony Addison and Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa
United Nations University and UNU-WIDER

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Financing Social Protection for Children in Crisis Context

Development Policy Review (2011), Vol. 29, No. 5, pp 601-618. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7679.2011.00549.x
Posted: 24 Jul 2014
Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa and Armando Barrientos
UNU-WIDER and Global Development Institute

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Social protection, children, poverty, financial crisis, developing countries

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Social Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa. Getting the Politics Right

World Development (2012), Vol. 40, No. 1. DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.04.004
Posted: 24 Jul 2014
Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa, Armando Barrientos, David Hulme and Sam Hickey
UNU-WIDER, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester - Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM) and University of Manchester

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social protection, poverty, social assistance, social policy, Sub-Saharan Africa