Livelihoods and social protection
Many developing countries lack social welfare systems, placing large numbers of poor people at risk from economic and natural shocks and stresses. Livelihoods thinking has been influential in the evolution of transformative social protection that seeks to provide, protect and promote livelihoods assets and strategies. More….
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- How best to measure pension adequacy
- A.G. Grech / Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economic and R, 2013
- Though the main benchmark used to assess pension reforms continues to be the expected resulting fall in future government spending, the impact of policy changes on pension adequacy is increasingly coming to the for...
- Social Protection for Agricultural Growth
- Future Agricultures Consortium, 2009
- Various explanations have been advanced for the persistent under?performance of agriculturein many African countries, where smallholder farming is still the dominant livelihood activityand the main source of employment, food and incom...
- The Green Belt Initiative and Land Grabs in Malawi
- Chinsinga, B / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2012
- FAC Policy Brief 55 by Blessings Chinsinga and Michael Chasukwa There is often a mismatch between the apparent benevolent intents and the practical manifestations of the large scale land deals. The empirical realities of t...
- A Socio-economic Study of Informal Sector Workers of Dhaka City
- M Alam / Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2012
- Informal sector is a very important area of the economy for any developing country; it is a growing occupational sector for the less skilled people, living both in urban and rural areas. Considerable amount of employment are ensured b...
- Sri Lanka is rebuilding its post-war infrastructure, but the impact of this approach has yet to be assessed
- P. Fernando; S. Moonesinghe / Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium, 2012
- Sri Lanka has just witnessed the end of a protracted war that lasted for about three decades. This paper explores how the war affected livelihoods in the north and east of Sri Lanka, and assesses the current state of basic services an...
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