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Searching with a thematic focus on Livelihoods, Livelihoods social protection, Cash transfers, Poverty

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  Post offices, pension and computers: new opportunities for combining growth and social protection in weakly-integrated rural areas?

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2003

  India’s efforts in targeting a wide range of social protection measures towards different categories of poor people might be a model for other countries as they prepare their own Poverty Reduction Strategies.
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  Social protection and pro-poor agricultural growth: what scope for synergies?

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2004

  Social protection (SP) and livelihood promotion have conventionally been handled by different departments within governments and donor organisations.
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  Does subsidized childcare help poor working women in urban areas?: evaluation of a government sponsored programme in Guatemala City

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper presents an evaluation and impact assessment (1998) of the urban Hogares Comunitarios Program (HCP), Guatemala, a government-sponsored pilot programme designed to alleviate poverty by providing working parents with low-cost, quality childcare within their community.
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  Assisting the poor with cash: design and implementation of social transfer programs

  World Bank, 2002

  This paper explores the role of cash transfers in a social safety net. It explores key factors that affect the choice between a cash-based program and an in-kind transfer program, and presents a number of design considerations that influence the efficiency and effectiveness of cash transfers as a social safety net.
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  Non-contributory pension schemes: a new model for social security in the South?

  International Social Security Association, 2003

  This paper considers existing non-contributory pension programmes, or more accurately cash transfers for the old, in Africa and Latin America. It evaluates their impact on poverty and vulnerability of the old, on aggregate poverty, and on household investment in physical and human capital.
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  Does subsidized childcare help poor working women in urban areas?: evaluation of a government-sponsored program in Guatemala City

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper presents an evaluation and impact assessment (1998) of the urban Hogares Comunitarios Program (HCP), Guatemala, a government-sponsored pilot programme designed to alleviate poverty by providing working parents with low-cost, quality childcare within their community.
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  More calories or more diversity?: an econometric evaluation of the impact of the PROGRESA and PROCAMPO transfer programs on food security in rural Mexico

  Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2002

  This paper examines the PROGRESA and PROCAMPO cash transfer programs in Mexico and evaluates their impact on household food security and nutrition.
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  Can social safety nets contribute to poverty reduction in Africa?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2001

  What effect do social safety nets have on poverty – on food security, trade, gender, and social relations? A recent Institute of Development Studies report suggests that the impact is far more wide-ranging and profound than previously thought. Even tiny transfers make a significant difference to the livelihoods of the very poor.
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  Raising household energy prices in Poland : who gains? who loses?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Programs that subsidize household energy prices in the transition economies help the rich more than they help the poor. Not only do the wealthy consume more energy in absolute terms than the poor, but they also spend a larger portion of their income on energy.Freund and Wallich examine the welfare effects of increasing household energy prices in Poland.
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  Poverty alleviation in Jordan in the 1990's: lessons for the future

  Workshop on the Analysis of Poverty and its Determinants in the MENA Region, 2001

  The purpose of this report is to draw lessons for improving the policy design of poverty alleviation schemes in Jordan.

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