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    Social assistance in developing countries database

    Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2011
    This database in print form aims to:
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    Make childhood poverty history: id21 insights, issue 56

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    About 600 million children worldwide are growing up in absolute poverty. Over ten million children under five years of age die every year. Nearly one billion children will be growing up with impaired mental development by 2020. The articles in this issue of id21 insights argue that policy needs to be more sensitive to the ways in which it may lead to or perpetuate childhood poverty.
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    Fertility impact of social transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa – what about pensions?

    Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2010
    Whilst the impact on fertility of child-related cash transfer in developing countries is fiercely debated, the author of this paper argues that little attention is paid to the fertility impact of old-age cash transfers.
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    Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction and Social Protection

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009
    This paper outlines linkages between climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction (DRR) and social protection.
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    Social protection in Africa: where next?

    Centre for Social Protection, 2010
    Has social protection in sub-Saharan Africa lost its way? Many countries now have social protection strategies. Emergency cash transfers have displaced or complemented food aid, some large-scale programmes have been introduced, others have been consolidated.
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    Cash transfers: to condition or not to condition?

    Eldis Gateway to Development and Environment Information, 2009
    In response to the recent food crisis and global financial crisis, the G-20 countries and the World Bank announced increased spending on social protection programmes, including cash-based systems.
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    Response to 'Targeting Social Cash Transfers' comment

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2009
    Responding to the paper Targeting Social Cash Transfers comment, (on the process of defining target groups and designing the targeting mechanism for the Malawi Social Cash Transfer Scheme), the author of this response suggests that the Comment is shaky, incoherent, defeatist, misguided and - in the final analysis - fatally flawed.The respondent argues that the comment is:
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    Electronic delivery of social cash transfers: lessons learned and opportunities for Africa

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2010
    Delivery of cash transfers typically involves a compromise between the cost of reaching recipients literally at the door of their homes, and the savings from providing them at a central point to which recipients must travel to receive their benefit.
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    Cash transfers, gender and generational relations: evidence from a pilot project in Lesotho

    Overseas Development Institute, 2008
    This paper reviews the World Vision's 'Cash and Food Transfers Pilot Project' in Lesotho, focusing on the impact of cash transfers on gender relations. The paper highlights the concerns that cash transfer programmes may have significant negative gender impacts. I the suspicions about women's ability to control the use of cash within the household compared to certain types of in-kind assistance.
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    Conditional cash transfers: a ‘pathway to women’s empowerment’?

    Pathways of Women's Empowerment RPC, 2008
    Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) provide mothers of school-age children in extreme poverty with a cash subsidy conditional on their children's attendance at school and health clinics. This paper assesses the evidence for the claim that these programmes empower women. It finds that:

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