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    Empowering rural women through social protection

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2015
    This paper reviews evidence on the most widely-used social protection schemes, assessing the extent of their current and potential impact on women’s economic empowerment and, where possible, the programme design characteristics that lead to these impacts.
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    Gender inequality, risk and vulnerability in the rural economy: refocusing the public works agenda to take account of economic and social risks

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011
    Although the gender-specific challenges of women’s largely unequal involvement in agricultural activities are generally well-articulated, social protection policy and programming have not adequately recognised the gendered experiences of poverty and vulnerability and the extent to which gender inequality affects both social protection programme design and outcomes.
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    Evidence on gender inequities in social health protection: the case of women living in rural areas

    International Labour Organization, 2012
    While in many low- and middle-income countries, urban women have had better opportunities to join growing formal economies, rural women are often stuck in harsh living and working conditions in informal economies. The aim of this report is to examine and provide evidence of inequalities in social health protection experienced by rural women.
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    Issues in labour market inequality and women’s participation in India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme

    International Labour Organization, 2011
    The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee (MGNREGP or NREGP), functions as an income supplement for poor households by providing 100 days of work to a rural household, with 33 per cent of all workdays reserved for women workers.
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    The State of Food and Agriculture: social protection and agriculture: breaking the cycle of rural poverty

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2015
    This edition of The State of Food and Agriculture 2015 reviews the effectiveness of social protection interventions in reducing poverty, raising food consumption, relieving household food insecurity and hunger, and promoting longer-term improvements in nutrition. It is argued that social protection programmes are effective at reducing poverty and hunger.
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    Study of alternative mechanisms for rural credit delivery

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1994
    This study aims to identify possible alternative mechanisms of extending credit to agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARB) and to assess the effectiveness, viability and sustainability of the alternative mechanisms for delivering credit assistance to ARBs.
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    Making women’s work visible: finance for rural women

    Women's World Banking, 2014
    Globally more than one billion women have no interaction with a bank or financial service provider. Rural women face unique challenges and limitations. They have, on average, lower levels of literacy and education than men, and generally have less freedom within households and communities.
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    Spotlight on publications: Latin American microfinance

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    The following selection of documents presented in this Spotlight some of the key publications focusing on the microfinance sector in Latin America.
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    Spotlight on publications: smallholder farmers and rural development

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    The publications presented in this overview represent some of the key resources dealing with a variety of issues related to rural development and small-scale farming in Latin America. The selected publications focus on: Market Access ; Territorial Development ; Rural Development ; Agricultural Productivity ; Reality of Smallholder Farmers ; and Land Use and Rights .
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    Health financing for the rural poor: Findings from a survey study

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1995
    This study deals with the health care needs of rural poor in Bukidnon and Misamis Oriental in the Philippines. Focusing on small-scale farmers and fishermen, landless laborers, women-headed households and disadvantaged minority groups, this paper investigates their attitudes and financing behavior towards health care.

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