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    Education for all: how to pass the 2015 grade?

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2010
    Lack of education is one of the many dimensions of poverty. Achieving universal primary education is not only a goal in itself but also a contributing factor to achieve other development goals, such as a reduced rate of HIV/AIDS, better resource management, lower poverty and inequality and sustained economic growth, 2003.
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    Special needs education: towards more inclusive

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2009
    Enrolment rates and educational attainment of children with disabilities lag far behind those of their non-disabled peers. The school enrolment rate for children with disabilities is estimated to be some 2 to 5 percent in developing countries, a deficit that far exceeds those of other high-risk groups such as girls, children from rural areas, or from low-income families.
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    Assessing long-term impacts of conditional cash transfers on children and young adults in rural Nicaragua

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2014
    Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes, which offer families cash grants conditional on attendance at school or preventive health visits, have expanded rapidly over the past decade.
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    Topic Guide on Social Protection

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2012
    This GSDRC Topic Guide provides a reference for policymakers and practitioners involved in social protection.
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    Social protection: Topic guide

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2015
    This guide provides an overview of social protection concepts, approaches, issues, debates and the evidence. It primarily focuses on longer-term developmental social protection, rather than humanitarian responses, and on low-income countries, drawing on other contexts where appropriate.
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    Social protection, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2014
    This rapid literature review presents and synthesises the conceptual underpinnings and evidence on the relationship between social protection, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction.
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    Financing better health care for all

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2009
    Poor people’s access to good health care is limited because they cannot afford it and often live far from quality services. There is evidence that poor people will pay to use health services if the quality is good. Cash transfers have also been highly successful in encouraging women to use health care, and contracting-out can help to improve coverage.
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    Public works: an effective safety net for the poor?

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2009
    Rigorous evaluations of the impacts of public works programmes in low and middle income countries are limited. Programmes can be successful in terms of targeting poor people, as well as generating short-term employment and income gains for participants. However, there is less evidence in terms of sustainable income gains and the benefits to poor people from the assets created.
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    Impact of conditional cash transfers on maternal and newborn health

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2013
    Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have been shown to increase health service utilisation among the poorest, but little is written on the effects of such programs on maternal and newborn health.
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    Creating youth employment in Asia

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    Several countries in the Asia-Pacific region are experiencing demographic changes. Over 60 per cent of the world's youth live in Asia and the Pacific, which translates into more than 750 million young women and men aged 15 to 24 years. They represent a key asset for the countries of this region.

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