Social protection
- When and where to intervene
- Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2000
- This article looks at ways of using food aid as an intervention to mitigate the impacts of HIV/AIDS. Impacts include: people infected with HIV/AIDS are frequently unable to work for increasingly long periods of time, u...
- Implications for the design and targetting of more formal safety nets
- S. Devereux / Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999
- Examines role of informal safety nets in providing protection against livelihood shocks. Summarises state of knowledge on informal safety nets by reviewing available literature and also reporting on household survey carried out...
- Safety net arrangements for elderly Africans
- S. Devereux / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2001
- Non-contributory state pensions were introduced in South Africa in 1928. Eligibility was extended to White Namibians in the 1940s but to African Namibians only in 1973. Initially motivated by a complex combination of welfarist ...
- The GAPVU Cash Transfer Program in Mozambique: an assessment
- G. Datt; E. Payongayong; J.L. Garrett; M. Ruel / International Food Policy Research Institute, 1997
- The GAPVU cash transfer program is an important safety net for urban Mozambique. The coverage of the program is impressive within the urban sector, reaching about 16 percent of all urban households. Although the mean transfer amount i...
- Effects of market reform on access to food by low-income households : evidence from four countries in Eastern and Southern Africa
- Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996
- This report highlights conclusions from the study which have broader implications for targeting vulnerable groups. There appear to be major opportunities to promote household food security through the use of self-targeting. By further...
- Are school breakfast programmes an effective intervention?
- S. Cueto; M. Chinen; I. Montes; F. Andrade; M. Staeheli / Grupo de Analisis para el Desarrollo, Peru, 2000
- Evaluation of the educational impact of a school breakfast program implemented in rural schools in the highlands of Peru. Specifically, measurements in weight, height, school enrollment, dropout, attendance, cognitivPreue activities, ...
- Net public social expenditure [analysis of OECD data]
- A Willem; M Einerhand; E Bengt; J Lotz; M Pearson / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999
- The OECD Social Expenditure data base (SOCX) allows the monitoring of trends in aggregate social expenditure and changes in its composition. But aggregate social expenditure may sometimes fail to reflect the true ‘effort’ of...
- Food Aid Targeting in Ethiopia: A Study of Household Food Insecurity and Food Aid Distributions
- Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1998
- Examines food aid targeting efficiencies and the determinants of food aid distributions in rural Ethiopia during the 1995-96 agricultural year. It is based on survey data from a nationwide, randomly selected sample of 4,166 farm house...
- Meeting Food Aid and Price Stabilization Objectives Through Local Grain Purchase: A Review of the 1996 Experience [in Ethiopia]
- W Amha; J. Stepanek; T.S. Jayne; A Negassa / Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1999
- Aims to identify factors that can improve the ability of future local purchase activities to achieve a range of national food policy objectives. This analysis reviews the design and implementation of 1996 local purchase activities in ...
- Social impacts of the Asian Financial Crisis in Thailand
- World Bank Office, Thailand, 1999
- Regular report on the social effects of the crisis, eash issue profiling a specific issue. These have included Social capital: what should be the role of family and community in providing social safety ...
- Safety net arrangements for elderly Africans
- S. Devereux / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2001
- Non-contributory state pensions were introduced in South Africa in 1928. Eligibility was extended to White Namibians in the 1940s but to African Namibians only in 1973. Initially motivated by a complex combination of welfarist ...
- The GAPVU Cash Transfer Program in Mozambique: an assessment
- G. Datt; E. Payongayong; J.L. Garrett; M. Ruel / International Food Policy Research Institute, 1997
- The GAPVU cash transfer program is an important safety net for urban Mozambique. The coverage of the program is impressive within the urban sector, reaching about 16 percent of all urban households. Although the mean transfer amount i...
- Effects of market reform on access to food by low-income households : evidence from four countries in Eastern and Southern Africa
- Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996
- This report highlights conclusions from the study which have broader implications for targeting vulnerable groups. There appear to be major opportunities to promote household food security through the use of self-targeting. By further...
- Are school breakfast programmes an effective intervention?
- S. Cueto; M. Chinen; I. Montes; F. Andrade; M. Staeheli / Grupo de Analisis para el Desarrollo, Peru, 2000
- Evaluation of the educational impact of a school breakfast program implemented in rural schools in the highlands of Peru. Specifically, measurements in weight, height, school enrollment, dropout, attendance, cognitivPreue activities, ...
- Net public social expenditure [analysis of OECD data]
- A Willem; M Einerhand; E Bengt; J Lotz; M Pearson / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999
- The OECD Social Expenditure data base (SOCX) allows the monitoring of trends in aggregate social expenditure and changes in its composition. But aggregate social expenditure may sometimes fail to reflect the true ‘effort’ of...
- Food Aid Targeting in Ethiopia: A Study of Household Food Insecurity and Food Aid Distributions
- Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1998
- Examines food aid targeting efficiencies and the determinants of food aid distributions in rural Ethiopia during the 1995-96 agricultural year. It is based on survey data from a nationwide, randomly selected sample of 4,166 farm house...
- Meeting Food Aid and Price Stabilization Objectives Through Local Grain Purchase: A Review of the 1996 Experience [in Ethiopia]
- W Amha; J. Stepanek; T.S. Jayne; A Negassa / Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1999
- Aims to identify factors that can improve the ability of future local purchase activities to achieve a range of national food policy objectives. This analysis reviews the design and implementation of 1996 local purchase activities in ...
- Social impacts of the Asian Financial Crisis in Thailand
- World Bank Office, Thailand, 1999
- Regular report on the social effects of the crisis, eash issue profiling a specific issue. These have included Social capital: what should be the role of family and community in providing social safety ...
- Manual for policy and implementation
- J. Del Rosso / School Health, 1999
- Designed to assist those engaged in the process of creating new School Feeding Programmes (SFPs) or seeking to improve the effectiveness of on-going ones. It is based on a review of the SFP research and program literature from the las...
- Do food subsidies benefit the poor?
- R. H. Adams Jr. / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000
- Food subsidy programs are under increasing criticism in many developing countries because of their large contributions to government budget deficits. According to critics, food subsidies pose both an unnecessary burden on the public b...
- Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences (RJOAS)
- An interdisciplinary open access journal of agriculture and socio-economic studies
- Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium (SLRC)
- The Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium (SLRC) is a six year global research programme exploring livelihoods, basic services and social protection in conflict-affected situations. Funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), SLRC was established in 2011 with the aim of strengthening the evidence base and informing policy and practice around livelihoods and servic...
