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  Rising food prices: drivers and implications for development

  Child Rights Information Network, 2008

  Global food prices have risen 83 per cent over the last three years, with significant impacts for the world's poorest people. This briefing paper focuses on what this important change means for international development. It assesses the drivers of rising prices, discusses the implications of higher prices for developing countries, and surveys implications for development policy.
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  Evaluating the impact of Brazil’s Bolsa Família: Cash transfer programmes in comparative perspective

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007

  Created in 2004, Brazil's Bolsa Familia programme consists of monthly cash transfers to poor households with children or pregnant women and unconditional transfers to extremely poor households. This paper examines how successfully and efficiently Bolsa Familia eases poverty and breaks its intergenerational transmission.
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  Guidelines for cash transfer programming

  International Committee of the Red Cross, 2006

  This document presents a guide to cash transfer programming. It looks to ascertain whether a cash programme is an appropriate response – and if appropriate a practical, step-by-step guide how to design and implement a cash programme is illustrated. The three sections in the paper discuss the following areas:
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  A regional multiplier approach to estimating the impact of cash transfers: the case of cash aid in rural Malawi

  Munich Re, 2007

  This paper analyses the impact of the Dowa Emergency Cash Transfer (DECT) programme in Dowa, Malawi, on the local economy. The programme consisted of cash transfers to households over a duration of five months. Transfers were adjusted to household size and changes in staple food prices. According to the authors, the programme was a success as:
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  Cash-transfer programming in emergencies

  Oxfam, 2006

  This manual is intended to support the implementation of cash transfer programmes in emergencies. It is based on the experience of Oxfam GB over five years (2000–2005) in a variety of disaster contexts. It argues that cash transfers may offer the following advantages over food aid:
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  The Malawi social cash transfer scheme: preliminary lessons learned

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2006

  Evidence from a pilot social cash transfer programme in Malawi indicates that it is a cost-effective, quick way to meet the basic needs of ultra-poor households whose members are unable to work.
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  Cash and food transfers: a primer

  United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2007

  This paper looks at the various aspects of the cash versus food debate, in order to map out where the controversies lie and to demonstrate the need for a more pragmatic, balanced and context-specific approach.A key concept in the paper is that appropriateness of either a cash or food transfer cannot be predetermined.
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  Cash-based responses in emergencies

  Overseas Development Institute, 2007

  People affected by disasters may need external assistance in order to survive and recover.
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  Causing hunger: an overview of the food crisis in Africa

  Oxfam, 2006

  This Oxfam briefing argues that the world’s emergency response to food crises requires an overhaul in order to deliver prompt, equitable, and effective assistance to people suffering from lack of food.
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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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