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.
Latest Additions
- Pensions in Asia and the Pacific
- ( Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , 2012)
- In addition to giving insights on the sustainability of public pensions and the pressures they face with the mounting demographic issues, Pensions at a Glance – Asia/Pacific Edition 2011 aims to...
- Social protection programmes do not focus on the needs of the elderly
- ( D.E. Bloom;E. Jimenez;L. Rosenberg / Harvard Initiative for Global Health , 2011)
- Despite the growth and extent of social protection programmes (SP) in both developed and developing countries, most emerging economies have systems that are only just coming into existence. Subs...
- Brazil's social security system is not sustainable in its current form
- ( R. Alves de Mesquita;G. Balbinotto Neto / National Association of Postgraduate Centers in Economics, Brazil , 2011)
- In two decades Brazil has built a comprehensive welfare state, but it is very costly and ill prepared to face the ageing of the Brazilian population - by 2050 Brazilians 65 or older will represe...
Mexican anti-poverty and human resource investment programme significantly improve women health
- ( J.R. Behrman;S.W. Parker / Population Aging Research Center, University of Pennsylvania , 2011)
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Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs link public transfers to human capital investment. This paper examines health and work impacts on the ageing for the Mexican PROGRESA/Oportunidades programm...
- Social protection case studies from Malawi
- ( G. Sevenier;D. Jinadasa / United Nations [UN] Children's Fund , 2007)
- This story-telling publication raises awareness about the impact of cash transfers on the lives of the most vulnerable children in Malawi. It forms one part of an advocacy package on the Malawi's pilo...
- Resources from Young Lives study on childhood poverty
- ( Young Lives , 2011)
- Working papers from the Young Lives study....
- Resources from Young Lives study
- ( Young Lives , 2011)
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Policy papers from the Young Lives study:
... - Family support mechanisms for Chinese elderly are linked to their children's geographical proximity
- ( X. Lei;J. Strauss;M. Tian;Y. Zhou / RAND Center for the Study of Aging , 2011)
- Recent increases in Chinese elderly living alone or only with a spouse has raised concerns about elderly support, especially in light of the population policy implemented since the late 1970s, and rur...
- Report compiled in preparation for the State of the World’s Older Persons 2012
- ( G. Gelber (ed) / HelpAge International , 2011)
- The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing and its Political Declaration (Madrid Plan) were adopted in April 2002 by the 159 governments which attended the Second World Assembly on Ageing in Ma...
- Have households with older people in South Africa and Brazil managed to reduce their poverty gaps?
- ( A. Barrientos;J. Mase / Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester , 2011)
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The knowledge gap relating to the dynamics of wellbeing and poverty among older households
in developing countries has direct implications for policy. In general, South Africa and Brazil lack ...
