Social protection
- Mobile technology for delivering cash transfers
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While there is growing evidence of cash transfers reducing hunger and vulnerability, less is known about effective delivery mechanisms for such transfers, particularly in remote areas. The Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme piloted a project using cell phones to deliver cash transfers to women in Lesotho with success and lessons learnt.
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- Which is better - conditional or unconditional cash transfers?
- ( S. Devereux (ed) / Eldis Gateway to Development and Environment Information , 2009)
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In response to the recent food crisis and global financial crisis, the G-20 countries and the World Bank announced increased spending on social protection programmes, including cash-based systems. ...
- Response to "Targeting Social Cash Transfers" comment
- ( C. Gorical / Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme , 2009)
- Responding to the paper Targeting Social Cash Transfers comment, (on the process of defining target groups and designing the targeting mechanism for the Malawi Social Cash Transfer Scheme), the author...
How eligibility rules affect access to pensions In Latin America
- ( A. Forteza;I. Apella;E. Fajnzylber / Social Protection and Labour, World Bank , 2010)
- This paper proposes alternative methods to project pension rights and implement these methods in Chile, Uruguay and Argentina. The paper indicates that the histories of contribution required to access...
- Do cash transfers reduce gender conflicts within households?
- ( R Slater;M Mphale / Overseas Development Institute, London , 2008)
- This paper reviews the World Vision's 'Cash and Food Transfers Pilot Project' in Lesotho, focusing on the impact of cash transfers on gender relations. The paper highlights the concerns that cash tran...
- Do cash transfers continue poor women’s second-class citizenship status?
- ( M. Molyneux / Pathways of Women's Empowerment RPC , 2008)
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Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) provide mothers of school-age children in extreme poverty with a cash subsidy conditional on their children's attendance at school and health clinics. This paper a...
- Hope restored through the first universal cash transfer pilot project
- ( C. Haarmann;D. Haarmann;H. Jauch / Friedrich Ebert Stiftung , 2009)
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This paper reports the socio-economic results after the implementation of the Basic Income Grant (BIG) Pilot Project in Otjivero settlement and the Omitara 'town' in the Omitara District in Na...
- How increasing old-age pension provision impacts on retirement decisions in a poor country
- ( A.M. Danzer / Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn , 2010)
- Although a number of emerging countries have successfully introduced non-contributory pensions with broad coverage, very little is known about the labour market and retirement effects of pension syste...
- How to build more a sustainable more sustainable pension for future generations
- ( D.C. John;R. Levine / Retirement Security Project, Brookings , 2010)
- Americans today face precarious retirement prospects that have only been made worse by the recession that began in 2007. The US social security system will only be solvent until 2019, after which it w...
- How the Indian pension system falls behind the OECD benchmark
- ( R.K. Jha;S. Bhattacharyya / Munich Personal RePEc Archive , 2010)
- In India the lack of a wide social security net has serious implications for well-being of aged, poor people who are unable to meet their old age needs. India’s workforce is largely based in uno...
- How to create a multi-pillar pension system in Peru
- ( J. Olivera / Society for the Study of Economic Inequality , 2010)
- Peru created the Private Pension system (SPP) in 1993, without dismantling its old defined benefit system (the National Pension System, SNP). However, members of the SPP (those who previously be...
