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    Research briefing: Antipoverty transfers and inclusive growth in Brazil

    International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014
    The evolution of antipoverty policy in Brazil suggests a shift in focus over time from the extension of social insurance to incorporate excluded sectors, to conventional social assistance directed at vulnerable groups, to human development focused income transfers. This research briefing looks at the evolution of social assistance in Brazil and possble relevance for African countries.
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    Antipoverty transfers and inclusive growth in Brazil

    International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014
    Brazil’s has attracted considerable attention among low and middle income countries for the way it has successfully combined economic and social policies to reduce poverty, inequality, and social exclusion. The emergence of large scale social assistance institutions addressing poverty and social exclusion is central to these achievements.
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    Social protection for the elderly as a development strategy: a case study of Kenya’s old persons cash transfer programme

    2010
    Kenya has made progressive investments in social protection for the ageing, providing lessons and existing opportunities for similar programmes. In Kenya, there has been a paradigm shift from universal social protection schemes targeted at formal employees to inclusive schemes including both formal and informal sectors, corporations and individuals.
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    Pension design with a large informal labor market: evidence from Chile

    Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2014
    Over the last three decades, many governments have considered or introduced fully-funded, privately-managed, individual accounts-based pension programmes. Chile was the earliest and most influential example of such a reform in 1980, and the only one for which more than 29 years of data are available.
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    Towards universal pension coverage in Mexico

    HelpAge International, 2014
    Until recently, there was no social pension provision in Mexico; all pensions were earnings-related, financed with government subsidies and payroll taxes. Mexico introduced social pensions long after other Latin American countries, and for that reason had pension coverage of only 22 per cent as late as 2000. Just 13 years later, 88 per cent of older people had pensions.
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    The state of social safety nets 2014

    World Bank, 2014
    ocial safety nets are non-contributory transfers designed to provide regular and predictable support to targeted poor and vulnerable people.
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    Advocating for social pensions: lessons learnt from the Philippines

    HelpAge International, 2014
    Social pensions provide secure income for older people and are critical to reducing extreme poverty for older people. The Coalition of Services for the Elderly (COSE) has been enabling older people to form community-led groups in the Philippines for over 20 years.
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    Social protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: plurinational State of Bolivia

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2013
    Poverty affects about 5.5 million people in the Plurinational State of Bolivia. Accordingly, poverty-reduction policies have become extremely relevant in the country during the last decades.
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    Social protection floor for a fair and inclusive globalization

    International Labour Organization, 2011
    The social protection floor approach has been developed by the ILO, drawing on recent experiences of extending protection, mostly in developing countries. It includes guarantees of:
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    Social protection for the poorest in Africa compedium of papers presented during the International Conference on Social Protection, 2008

    2008
    Conference proceedings from the International Conference on Social Protection, Uganda, 8th-10th September 2008.  Papers cover: social protection design programmes social protection, vulnerability and rights social protection, growth and assets politics and financing social protection in Africa children and social protection

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