Social protection
- 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 ...
- The importance of replacing family allowances with child care subsidies
- M. M. Lokshin / Gendernet, World Bank, 2000
- The paper models household demand for child care, mothers' labour force participation and working hours, in Russia. The model estimates the effects of the price of child care, mother's wage, and household income on household behaviour...
- Urban regeneration for fighting poverty
- N. Hamid; M. R. Villareal / Asian Development Bank Institute, 2001
- The present volume contains the proceedings of the third Asian Mayors’ Forum, which focused on the theme Fighting Urban Poverty and was held in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, on 26-29 June 2000. The individual contrib...
- Coping with livelihood risk
- S. Dercon / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2001
- This paper discusses the different strategies households use to cope with their livelihood risk. It focuses on income-based strategies, on assets as self-insurance and on informal insurance arrangements. It states that households are ...
- Scepticism about the effectiveness of Social Fund programmes to reduce poverty during the structural adjustment process
- G.A. Cornia / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 1999
- Social Funds (SFs) have proven to be no panacea. Many of them were formulated with the political objective to reduce domestic opposition to the adjustment process, and in particular of mollifying the influential groups affected by adj...
- 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 ...
- Social Welfare Systems in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis Including Private Welfare
- D. Jacobs / Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, 1998
- Overview of the social welfare systems of five East Asian countries, namely Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. It analyses the overall costs of welfare as well as income distribution aspects, based on both aggregate data a...
- 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
