Different approaches to social protection
Recommended reading
- Consumer-led demand side financing for health and education: an international review
- ( T. Ensor / Oxford Policy Management , 2003)
- This paper, published by Oxford Policy Management, examines "demand side financing" of health and education services. This involves placing purchasing power into the hands of consumers, for instance ...
- The role of cash transfers in tackling childhood poverty
- ( R. Marcus / Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre , 2004)
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This briefing paper focuses on the contribution one main social protection instrument - child-oriented cash transfers - can make to reducing childhood poverty and vulnerability.
The paper argues tha...
- Delivery mechanisms of cash transfer programs to the poor in Bangladesh
- ( S.S. Ahmed / World Bank , 2005)
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This paper examines the practical issues and financial costs of delivering cash benefits from source to recipients. An analysis of cost-effective mechanisms for this purpose is also presented.
The s...
- Recent trends in the development agenda of Latin America: an analysis of conditional cash transfers
- ( T. Britto / Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester , 2005)
- This paper analyses the characteristics, design and implementation factors contributing to the popularity of conditional cash transfers (CCT) in Latin America. It is based on an analysis of the Mexic...
- Targeting of transfers in developing countries: review of lessons and experience
- ( D. Coady; M. Grosh; J. Hoddinott / World Bank , 2004)
- This book provides a general review of experiences and lessons learned with methods used to target interventions in developing countries. The objective is to convey available targeting options, antici...
- Uninsured risk and asset protection: can conditional cash transfer programs serve as safety nets?
- ( A. de Janvry;E. Sadoulet;P. Solomon;R. Vakis / Social Development, World Bank , 2006)
- Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes have proved to be effective in inducing chronic poor households to invest in the human capital of their children while helping reduce poverty. They have also...
- The child support grant in Kwazulu-Natal: perceptions and experience inside the household
- ( N. Hunter;M. Adato / School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa , 2007)
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Over recent years the Child Support Grant (CSG) has become the ‘biggest’ of the South African social assistance grants in terms of the numbers of beneficiaries. It is a monthly payment ...
