Social protection
- Identifying better rural development strategies in Honduras and Nicaragua
- Overseas Development Institute, 2003
- In the light of the reduction in aid for rural development (RD) during the 1990s, and only very slow improvement of conditions in rural areas, this paper asks, what can be done to identify better RD strategies? This paper explores the...
- Country experience with implementing results oriented budgeting
- J. Roberts / Overseas Development Institute, 2003
- Review and case studies of "Results-oriented (or ‘performance’ or ‘output’) budgeting": the planning of public expenditures for the purpose of achieving explicit and defined results. These policies have often been ...
- Social security and pension provision in Bulgaria
- G. Shopov / Club 'Economika 2000', Bulgaria, 2002
- Why and how has the pension system been modernised in Bulgaria? This paper considers how economic, social and political needs for modernising pension policy and for reforming the pension system in Bulgaria was pronounced at the beginn...
- 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...
- Manual on participatory monitoring of employment-creation projects
- M. Vahlhaus; T. Kuby / Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, 2001
- Guidelines for providing practical help for implementing and enforcing poverty reduction impact observations and for analysing in Economic and Employment Promotion projects. These guidelines provide a comprehensive and systemat...
- Social protection concepts and approaches: implications for policy and practice in international development
- A. Norton; T. Conway; M. Foster / Overseas Development Institute, 2001
- This paper reviews contemporary conceptual developments regarding the meaning and importance of social protection, and identifies ways in which international agencies could contribute to improving the coverage and effectiveness of soc...
- Bad news for the urban poor
- J. Levinsohn; S. Berry; J. Friedman / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 1999
- Did the recent financial crisis in Indonesia result in dramatic price increases? In the Indonesian case the very poor appear the most vulnerable. The results emphasize the importance of heterogeneity when measuring the impact of the I...
- Community based rural development is more participatory, efficient and sustainable
- L. Coirolo; K. McLean; M. Mokoli; A. Ryan; P. Shah; M. Williams / Rural Development Strategy Team, World Bank, 2001
- This article investigates Community Based Rural Development, which is an approach to reducing rural poverty that promotes collective action by communities and puts them in control of development interventions by making community based...
- Accessing credit can lead to a decline in income for rural smallholders
- A. Diagne; M. Zeller / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001
- This report analyzes the determinants of access to credit in Malawi and its impact on farm and nonfarm income and on household food security and seeks to quantify the relationship between the demand for formal loans and that for infor...
- What lessons can be learnt from the Vietnamese success story?
- N. Minot; F Golleti / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001
- The main objective of this report is to examine the new set of food policy issues facing Viet Nam as a result of its transformation into a major rice exporter and its transition toward a market economy. In particular, the report aims ...
- HIV/AIDS impacts food and livelihood security
- S.I. Michiels / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2001
- This paper aims to provide a suggested framework of action for FAO' s engagement in HIV/AIDS prevention and impact-mitigation in rural Sub Saharan Africa at the community and household level. It presents a list of potential activities...
- Food-for Work policies and income diversification: comparing Cote d'Ivoire and Kenya
- C.B. Barrett; M. Bezuneh; A. Aboud / Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000
- This paper presents evidence on the effects of two different sorts of policy shocks on observed income diversification patterns in rural Côte d'Ivoire and Kenya. Research results: In Côte d'Ivoire, ma...
- Petty-traders in peri-urban Africa: burgeoning class of entrepreneurs or underclass of underemployed and unemployed?
- P.D. Little / Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999
- This article explores the increasing proliferation of petty traders, in Africa's sprawling peri-urban areas. Conclusions: The proliferation of petty traders in most peri-urban areas can be interpreted as an unhea...
- What measures of social protection can be put in place both to alleviate poverty and to minimize the risk that individuals fall into poverty?
- International Labour Organization, 2000
- Increasing globalization and trade liberalization are creating greater insecurity for many income earners. This study examines the changing context in which women and men are trying to achieve income security for themselves and their ...
- 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
