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Analysing government fiscal forecasts and tax and spending.
Case studies that give a flavour of the areas where IFS research has an impact on society.
Reforming the tax system for the 21st century.
A peer-reviewed quarterly journal publishing articles by academics and practitioners.
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Research in this area at IFS is committed to identifying success and failures in interventions and to promoting best practice in evaluating and conducting interventions. In particular, the Centre will be a focal point for research on the impact of specific interventions in health, nutrition, skill acquisition, education, credit, insurance and labour. It will conduct evaluations of specific interventions in developing countries, provide support to institutions conducting evaluations, engage in advocacy on best practice in terms of evaluations and on the design of interventions itself.
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This paper lays out the methodological issues involved in finding the distributional impact of the tax changes in Mexica and describes the approach the authors will take in their analysis.
This paper tests whether family size has a causal effect on girls' education in Mexico.
This paper tests whether family size has a causal effect on girls' education in Mexico.
We examine the effect of large cash transfers on the consumption of food by poor households in rural Mexico.
Grant Miller, Diana Pinto and Marcos Vera-Hernandez
Despite current emphasis on health insurance expansions in developing countries, inefficient consumer incentives for over-use of medical care are an important counterbalancing concern.
Britta Augsburg and Cyril Fouillet
In this paper we try to raise caution against the consequences of the overwhelming drive for microfinance institutions to become financially self-sustainable-more often than not pushed into this by international organizations.
The period from 2003 to the summer of 2008 saw significant and sustained increases in global food prices, especially for staple goods such as maize, rice and wheat.
This is an update in February 2010 on the progress of the FINISH project in India.
This book documents the first five years of life of the children of the influential Millennium Cohort Study, which is tracking almost 19,000 babies born in 2000 and 2001 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Britta Augsburg, Ralph de Haas, Heike Harmgart and Costas Meghir
This report provides a description of the first wave of household data collected for a randomised field experiment in Bosnia.
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   This survey was among the first to use PDAs for data collection in rural Africa.
IFS research has contributed to consultation with governments in developing countries on the design of health and welfare programmes.
IFS researchers working in Malawi trained interviewers in the use of PDAs, helping to collect more complete and accurate information about people's lives.
IFS researchers develop a model of the Mexican tax system that will be used by the Mexican Government analysts.
Researchers at IFS have advised OPORTUNIDADES on the design and evaluation of new scholarships, and are carrying out its impact evaluation.
IFS researchers and the World Bank plan to develop capacity and tools in developing countries for the comprehensive analysis of tax reforms
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