Impact
- Opportunities for governments and donors to support social transfer initiatives
- Department for International Development, UK, 2005
- Social transfers may offer an important option to tackle inequality and ensure that the benefits of growth reach those living in chronic poverty. This DFID policy paper outlines reasons for the promotion of social protection intiative...
- Formal and informal employment in Nairobi
- P. Bocquier / Développement, Institutions & Analyses de Long terme, 2005
- From official records, it would appear that the labour market significantly shifted from the formal to the informal sector in Kenya. However, a careful examination of different data sources for Nairobi show that in the 1990s there has...
- Examples of social protection programmes in Africa, Asia and South America
- A. Grinspun / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2005
- This one-pager outlines three examples of social protecion programmes in India, South Africa, Colombia and Brazil. Modelled on other South American programmes, in both Bolivia and Mexico, social protection initiatives serve different ...
- From theory to practice in Kalomo District Pilot Social Cash Transfer Scheme, Zambia
- B. Schubert / Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, 2005
- Social cash transfers are increasingly seen as an underexploited means of providing basic social protection. However, a number of preconditions exist for this to be a viable option - political will and committment to social protection...
- School feeding programmes are beneficial to children's education
- United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2004
- This brief discusses the effectiveness of school feeding programmes, how they address constraints to education, and how they can be scaled up. The paper argues that in-school feeding reduces short-term hunger; they provide micr...
- Evaluation of Mexican Oportunidades programme on education
- J.R. Behrman; S.W. Parker; P.E. Todd / Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica Mexico (National Institute of Public Health), 2005
- This paper provides estimates of the medium-term impacts of the Oportunidades programme in rural Mexico on education for children aged 0 to 8 in 1997 just prior to the initial intervention, and those aged 6 to 14 in the 2003 Rural Eva...
- Reducing child labour can significantly improve children's adult wages, income and poverty status
- N. Ilahi; P.F. Orazem; G. Sedlacek / World Bank, 2005
- This study assesses the future poverty impact of child labour. Drawing on empircal evidence from Brazil, the report examines the trends and tradeoffs between education and child labour. It concludes that, although some instances of im...
- Subsidy increases secondary education enrolment in Colombia
- O. Attanasio; E. Fitzsimons; A. Gomez / Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, 2005
- This study estimates the short-term impact on school enrolment of a large welfare programme in Colombia, Familias en Acción. The programme offers a monthly subsidy to eligible mothers conditional on their child(ren) attending s...
- Measuring a government's ability to deliver basic services to the poor and provide welfare
- N., Kakwani; H. H., Son / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2005
- This paper proposes a new "Pro-Poor Policy (PPP)" index, which measures the pro-poorness of government programmes, as well as basic service delivery in education, health and infrastructure. The index provides a means to assess the tar...
- Successes of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach for rural poverty reduction
- Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Document Repository, 2005
- This paper identifies specific examples where applications of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) had succeeded in reducing rural poverty. The study focused on whether the 12 country cases studies (in Bangladesh, Bolivia...
- Opportunities for governments and donors to support social transfer initiatives
- Department for International Development, UK, 2005
- Social transfers may offer an important option to tackle inequality and ensure that the benefits of growth reach those living in chronic poverty. This DFID policy paper outlines reasons for the promotion of social protection intiative...
- Formal and informal employment in Nairobi
- P. Bocquier / Développement, Institutions & Analyses de Long terme, 2005
- From official records, it would appear that the labour market significantly shifted from the formal to the informal sector in Kenya. However, a careful examination of different data sources for Nairobi show that in the 1990s there has...
- Examples of social protection programmes in Africa, Asia and South America
- A. Grinspun / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2005
- This one-pager outlines three examples of social protecion programmes in India, South Africa, Colombia and Brazil. Modelled on other South American programmes, in both Bolivia and Mexico, social protection initiatives serve different ...
- From theory to practice in Kalomo District Pilot Social Cash Transfer Scheme, Zambia
- B. Schubert / Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, 2005
- Social cash transfers are increasingly seen as an underexploited means of providing basic social protection. However, a number of preconditions exist for this to be a viable option - political will and committment to social protection...
- School feeding programmes are beneficial to children's education
- United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2004
- This brief discusses the effectiveness of school feeding programmes, how they address constraints to education, and how they can be scaled up. The paper argues that in-school feeding reduces short-term hunger; they provide micr...
- Evaluation of Mexican Oportunidades programme on education
- J.R. Behrman; S.W. Parker; P.E. Todd / Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica Mexico (National Institute of Public Health), 2005
- This paper provides estimates of the medium-term impacts of the Oportunidades programme in rural Mexico on education for children aged 0 to 8 in 1997 just prior to the initial intervention, and those aged 6 to 14 in the 2003 Rural Eva...
- Reducing child labour can significantly improve children's adult wages, income and poverty status
- N. Ilahi; P.F. Orazem; G. Sedlacek / World Bank, 2005
- This study assesses the future poverty impact of child labour. Drawing on empircal evidence from Brazil, the report examines the trends and tradeoffs between education and child labour. It concludes that, although some instances of im...
- Subsidy increases secondary education enrolment in Colombia
- O. Attanasio; E. Fitzsimons; A. Gomez / Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, 2005
- This study estimates the short-term impact on school enrolment of a large welfare programme in Colombia, Familias en Acción. The programme offers a monthly subsidy to eligible mothers conditional on their child(ren) attending s...
- Measuring a government's ability to deliver basic services to the poor and provide welfare
- N., Kakwani; H. H., Son / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2005
- This paper proposes a new "Pro-Poor Policy (PPP)" index, which measures the pro-poorness of government programmes, as well as basic service delivery in education, health and infrastructure. The index provides a means to assess the tar...
- Successes of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach for rural poverty reduction
- Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Document Repository, 2005
- This paper identifies specific examples where applications of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) had succeeded in reducing rural poverty. The study focused on whether the 12 country cases studies (in Bangladesh, Bolivia...
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