Social protection
- Does social protection have an impact on chronic poverty?
- A. Shepherd; A. Barrientos / Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2003
- Recent perspectives on social protection focus on risk and vulnerability to poverty and attempt to integrate a wide range of interventions to prevent risk, reduce vulnerability, and ameliorate the impact of risk realisations. Risk and...
- Institutional formation and social relationships can contribute to exclusion.
- F. Cleaver / Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2003
- This paper draws on research in Tanzania to question ideas that building social capital through getting institutions right in development can overcome poverty . It uses cases studies of the poorest families in the study area to disput...
- Household survival strategies used to inform disaster preparedness interventions in Ethopia
- S. Lautze; Y. Aklilu; A. Raven-Roberts; H. Young; G. Kebede; J. Leaning / US Agency for International Development, 2003
- This paper aims to learn from the household survival strategies in Ethiopia that have evolved to manage diverse disaster hazards with a view that such strategies can inform more effective disaster preparedness, relief, recovery and pr...
- What works best for targeting social protection for the poor?
- S. Devereux / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002
- This paper synthesises current thinking and evidence on a number of issues around the design and impact of social protection programmes, including: the case for and against targeting resource transfers; alterna...
- Volume 1 of materials prepared for the International Poverty Forum, 2001.
- C. Edmonds; S. Medina / Asian Development Bank Institute, 2002
- Highlights within this volume include President Tadao Chino's Inaugural Address, Nobel Laureate Robert Mundell's address on the role of the international monetary system in poverty reduction efforts, and many other contributions from ...
- Volume 2 of materials prepared for the International Poverty Forum hosted by ADB in 2001
- I. Ortiz / Asian Development Bank Institute, 2003
- This volume focuses on the areas of Social Protection: labour markets, social insurance, social assistance for the most vulnerable groups and community-based interventions such as social funds, micro-insurance or disaster prevention a...
- The poor have benefited most from economic reforms in Ethiopia
- S. Dercon / World Bank, 2002
- This study examines the poverty, and growth experience of six villages in rural Ethiopia, from 1989 to 1995. The time period was one of relative peace politically, which promoted considerable change in economic policies pertain...
- Meeting social security needs in the poorest countries
- D. Ghai / International Labour Organization, 2002
- The main purpose of this paper is to discuss the central features of four models of social security. The focus is on the meaning of social security, the coverage provided and the institutions and financing of social security in differ...
- Why was southern Africa more vulnerable to the food production shock of 2002 than to the more severe shock of 1992?
- S. Devereux / Forum for Food Security in Southern Africa, ODI, 2003
- This paper asks: What social protection policies and institutions are needed to achieve the food security goal of ensuring adequate and appropriate food at affordable prices to all southern Africans at all times? The report def...
- Regulating the informal economy
- M. Alter Chen; F. Lund; R. Jhabvala / International Labour Organization, 2002
- This paper argues that the informal economy is here to stay and requires appropriate regulations, laws and policies to correct biases in the existing regulatory, legal, and policy environment that favour formal enterprises and workers...
- Review of the value added by the ILO and its social partners in contributing to PRSPs
- International Labour Organization, 2002
- The ILO has undertaken PRSP-related activities in a number of countries including five special focus countries (Cambodia, Honduras, Mali, Nepal and the United Republic of Tanzania), especially in Africa where the policy environment is...
- Informal sector workers - the ninety percent of the working population in India who do not have any kind of social protection
- P. M. Rao / Eldis Document Store, 2002
- This paper suggests that traditionally the ILO and ministries of labour the world over believed that all workers would eventually end up in large enterprises, or at least in the formal sector. However, experience has proved otherwise....
- Looking at ways of analysing and addressing inequalities in the provision of health services in poor countries
- D. R. Gwatkin / World Bank, 2002
- What does current thinking tell us about trends in health inequalities and methods for reducing such inequalities? This is the central question addressed by D. Gwatkin of the World Bank in an article that draws on a variety of worldwi...
- Manual on social protection interventions in the South Asia and Pacific region
- I. Ortiz / Asian Development Bank Institute, 2002
- The publication is a practical and comprehensive manual for policy-makers and professionals in the field. The volume presents a range of social protection interventions and the way to prioritize them, assessing for each topic: ...
- Civil society working with and for the elderly in Eastern and Central Europe
- HelpAge International, 2002
- Document drawing on HelpAge International’s experience of engagement with the East and Central European Network (ECEN) of civil society organisations working with and for older people. It aims to provide decision-makers wi...
- Does the basic income grant address the need for social security reform in South Africa?
- M. Samson; O. Babson; C. Haarmann; G. Kathi; K. MacQueneand; I. van Niekerk; D. Haarmann / Economic Policy Research Institute, South Africa, 2002
- This paper reviews several research papers that address social security reform in South Africa, with an emphasis on the proposal for the basic income grant. It argues that there are three mechanisms through which the basic income gran...
- Safety nets and opportunities in South Asia
- N. Kabeer / Overseas Development Institute, 2002
- This paper aims to review literature on social protection measures in the context of India and Bangladesh. It explores whether some of the lessons learned from responses to vulnerability lend themselves to the notion of 'investment' i...
- Draft manual for analysing poverty policy impacts
- PovertyNet, World Bank, 2002
- Draft guide to in undertaking poverty and social impact analysis (PSIA) of policy reforms. The manual is aimed at help policy makers and analysts in developing countries, donor agencies, and civil society organizations. In deve...
- ILO policy statement on initiatives for ageing populations
- International Labour Organization, 2002
- Argues that the increasing proportion of the population aged 60 and over poses a growing policy challenge in both developed and developing countries. Creating millions of new jobs - in all sectors and especially among women, unemploye...
- Limitation of children as support networks for poor and frail elderly people in Java
- E. Schroder-Butterfill; P. Kreager / Oxford Institute of Ageing, 2002
- The limitations of state provision in developing countries have meant that research on elderly welfare has more or less inevitably focussed on support available via family systems. The short answer to the question “What help exis...
- Development Pathways
- Consultancy of international development practitioners who specialise in the fields of social protection and social development.
- Centre for Social Protection (CSP)
- The Centre for Social Protection (CSP) at the Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK, supports a network of partners working to mainstream social protection in development policy and encourage social protection systems and instruments that are comprehensive, long-term, sustainable and pro-poor. It produces research on: Conceptual approaches De...
- Global Extension of Social Security
- GESS is a global knowledge sharing platform on the extension of social security and aims to facilitate the exchange of information and ideas, capture and document experiences, identify knowledge gaps, create new knowledge and promote innovation. To achieve this goal, GESS relies on the contributions of its users and the dialogue and exchange between them. This platform, developed and r...
- Retirement Security Project, Brookings
- The Retirement Security Project is dedicated to promoting solutions to improve the retirement income prospects of millions of American workers. Nearly half of all workers do not have access to an employer-sponsored retirement savings plan, those that do often fail to participate. To address these trends, RSP proposes research-based policies aimed at helping middle- and low-income Americans prepare...
- PensionReforms
- Online resource centre covering pensions issues. Site contains collections of papers searchable by country, topic, author(s), institution producing the publication, year published. Site is run by Retirement Policy and Research Centre, School of Business at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
- Retirement Policy and Research Centre (RPRC)
- New Zealand's ageing population poses many economic challenges. The RPRC is an academically focused centre specialising in the economic issues of demographic change. The RPRC's sphere of interest includes public provision of retirement income (New Zealand superannuation) and the accumulation and decumulation phases of retirement saving. International debate is facilitated through pensionreforms, a...
- Population Ageing and Sustainable Livelihoods in regions affected by HIV/AIDS
- The population Ageing and Sustainable Livelihoods in regions affected by HIV/AIDS project was funded by the ESRC and ran from August 2005 until November 2006. Hosted at University of Sheffield. Website includes briefing notes: Project Outline Briefing Note 1 Methodology Briefing Note 1a Elderly Headed Households Profile Briefing Note 2...
- Kwa Wazee
- Organisation working with the elderly to promote pension programmes in Tanzania. Kwa Wazee, which started in November 2003 with a very small number of beneficiaries, has since aradually extended to over 300 grandmothers, who were caring for over 400 orphans by the end of 2005. Feedback from the elderly beneficiaries, as well as by observers in their neighbourhoods, shows that even the m...
- BIG coalition namibia
- Coalition for Basic income grant in Namibia
- The Centre for the Analysis of South African Social Policy (CASASP)
- Eradicating poverty and building citizenship in South Africa
