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    Adaptive social protection: mapping the evidence and policy context in the agriculture sector in South Asia

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2010
    The concept of Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) refers to a series of measures which aims to build resilience of the poorest and most vulnerable people to climate change by combining elements of social protection (SP), disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) in programmes and projects.  While these approaches have much in common, because they have developed separatel
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    Economic security arrangements in the context of population ageing in India

    Harvard Initiative for Global Health, 2010
    Life expectancy in India is rising steadily.  However, a combination of migration out of rural areas and the continued concentration of the working population in the informal sector, means there is a pressing need for better economic security arrangements for the elderly. Women in particular face specific disadvantages in ensuring their economic security.
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    Social transfers: a critical strategy to meet the MDGs

    HelpAge International, 2010
    Non-contributory pensions enable poor older people to provide for their future and the future of their families. Alongside other social transfer schemes, pensions are now being seen to help reduce old age and intergenerational poverty, and have improved income security, access to education, health status and gender equality across other age groups.
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    Climate change and social protection in Cambodia: linkages and synergies

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2010
    Because of its low adaptive capacity, Cambodia is highly vulnerable to climate change events, particularly as the social protection system in Cambodia is still under development.
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    Responding to a changing climate: exploring how disaster risk reduction, social protection and livelihoods approaches promote features of adaptive capacity

    Overseas Development Institute, 2010
    How can humanitarian and development approaches help enhance communities’ capacity to adapt to a changing climate? This paper explores how interventions associated with disaster risk reduction (DRR), social protection (SP) and livelihoods (LH) approaches can play an important role in terms of climate adaptive capacity.
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    The impact of a minimum pension on old age poverty and its budgetary cost. Evidence from Latin America.

    Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, 2010
    Alleviating old age poverty requires a different approach from other age groups. This paper examines the impact on old age poverty and the fiscal cost of universal minimum old age pensions in Latin America using recent household survey data for 18 countries. The authors:
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    The Global Economic Crisis and Developing Countries

    Oxfam, 2010
    Oxfam’s research on the global economic crisis looks at 12 countries, an is combined in this report with the findings of studies by a range of universities, think tanks, and international organisations.
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    Impacts of climate change on livelihoods: what are the implications for social protection?

    Climate and Disaster Governance Programme, 2009
    This paper explores how rural agricultural livelihoods may be affected by changes in climate. Exploring Ethiopian case studies, the author uses a combined Transformative Social Protection and Household Economy Approach to determine how social protection can contribute to adaptation plans - specifically for the poor and most vulnerable - in the context of a changing climate.
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    Resilience of rural communities to climatic accidents: a need to scale up socio-environmental safety nets (Madagascar, Haiti)

    EASYPol, 2009
    Lack of resilience to climatic accidents seems to be one of the main reasons for the transformation of climatic accidents into environmental, economic and social disasters for rural communities. Focusing particularly on Madagascar and Haiti, the recommendations in this policy brief target ways to increase and improve the coverage and impact of existing risk management tools, as well as mak
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    Ageing, human rights and public policies

    CEPAL - ECLAC Database, 2010
    This book examines the ageing phenomenon in Latin American countries from the demographic perspectives, and the guaranteeing of human rights in old-age. The book catches two notable facts about the region: population is ageing faster in the region than it did historically in the developed countries; and poor coverage and quality of social protection systems are dominating.

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