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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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    Work and welfare: revisiting the linkages from a gender perspective

    Political and Social Economy of Care (UNRISD), 2012
    This paper takes a gender perspective to examine the relationship between employment and social policy. It challenges key assumptions about the translation of patterns of growth into welfare outcomes that are made in most poverty- and inequality-reduction approaches.
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    Spotlight on publications: citizen oversight of conditional cash transfer programmes

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2012
    Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) – a Latin American innovation – have now gained fame around the world for their effectiveness in promoting human development, fighting poverty and reducing inequality.
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    Spotlight on publications: conditional cash transfers

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2011
    Latin American countries pioneered the use of Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) to achieve important impacts in human development indicators. This selection of publications highlights key resources documenting and analysing important aspects of the Latin American CCT experience.
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    Korea's labor and social security policy responses during the Korean crisis of 1998-2000

    Korea Development Institute, 2010
    This volume explains Korea’s labour and social security policy responses during the Financial Crisis period from 1998 to 2000. The crisis was a financial one in nature: Korea was enveloped by the crisis because it’s foreign reserves needed to repay the impending foreign loans were depleted, and because Korean companies were not productive enough compared to their liabilities.
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    Informality and inclusive growth

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2015
    This paper is a working document, and the first stage in the conduct of a joint research in the topic of informality and inclusive growth. The research will study the cases of Colombia and South Africa and analyse to what extent these lessons can be applied to other countries in Africa and Latin America.
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    Argentina: Impacts of the child allowance programme on the labour-market behaviour of adults

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2014
    In 2009 Argentina implemented the Universal Child Allowance for Social Protection (AUH,  Asignación Universal por Hijo para Protección Social), a cash transfer programme for households with children.
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    Conditional cash transfer program in the Philippines: is it reaching the extremely poor?

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012
    The Philippine government shows its serious effort to combat poverty through the continuing expansion of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), the Philippines` version of the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program modeled by Latin American countries.
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    What happens once the intervention ends? The medium-term impacts of a cash transfer programme in Malawi

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2015
    Adolescent girls in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) face a multitude of hazards during their transition from childhood to adulthood.
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    The political economy of pension reform: public opinion in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2015
    Countries around the world are facing important challenges to the sustainability of their pension systems. Changing policies, especially those of large scope and financial magnitude, is a political challenge. It takes a combination of willingness, capacity and enough political support to change the status quo and avoid costly subsequent reversals.

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