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    No small change: Oxfam GB Malawi and Zambia emergency cash transfer projects - a synthesis of key learning

    Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2006
    In response to predictions of an impending food crisis in southern Africa in 2005 - 2006, Oxfam deployed a relief response. As an alternative to emergency food aid, the agency undertook cash transfer schemes in both Malawi and Zambia.
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    Recent trends in resource sharing among the poor

    National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2005
    This paper provides a conceptual discussion of private transfers drawing on several related literatures and provides new empirical evidence regarding the significance of private transfers as a source of income. It summarises the theoretical literature drawing on several well-developed models of resource sharing between and within households that provide important insights into possible motives.
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    Breaking poverty cycles: the importance of action in childhood

    Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004
    This briefing paper examines the ways in which extreme childhood poverty can have irreversible lifetime effects. These include poor health, missed education, and poor early childcare and social protection.
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    Assisting the poor with cash: design and implementation of social transfer programs

    World Bank, 2002
    This paper explores the role of cash transfers in a social safety net. It explores key factors that affect the choice between a cash-based program and an in-kind transfer program, and presents a number of design considerations that influence the efficiency and effectiveness of cash transfers as a social safety net.
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    Does subsidized childcare help poor working women in urban areas?: evaluation of a government-sponsored program in Guatemala City

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002
    This paper presents an evaluation and impact assessment (1998) of the urban Hogares Comunitarios Program (HCP), Guatemala, a government-sponsored pilot programme designed to alleviate poverty by providing working parents with low-cost, quality childcare within their community.
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    Can social safety nets contribute to poverty reduction in Africa?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2001
    What effect do social safety nets have on poverty – on food security, trade, gender, and social relations? A recent Institute of Development Studies report suggests that the impact is far more wide-ranging and profound than previously thought. Even tiny transfers make a significant difference to the livelihoods of the very poor.
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    Raising household energy prices in Poland : who gains? who loses?

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    Programs that subsidize household energy prices in the transition economies help the rich more than they help the poor. Not only do the wealthy consume more energy in absolute terms than the poor, but they also spend a larger portion of their income on energy.Freund and Wallich examine the welfare effects of increasing household energy prices in Poland.
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    Poverty alleviation in Jordan in the 1990's: lessons for the future

    Workshop on the Analysis of Poverty and its Determinants in the MENA Region, 2001
    The purpose of this report is to draw lessons for improving the policy design of poverty alleviation schemes in Jordan.

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