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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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    Shelter from the storm: upgrading housing infrastructure in Latin American slums

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2013
    Adequate housing, along with food and clothing, is considered by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a basic requirement for achieving a minimum living standard. Yet, inadequate housing, a primary characteristic of slum dwellers, is a problem facing 45 per cent of the global urban population.
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    A randomized evaluation of the effects of an agricultural insurance program on rural households’ behavior: evidence from China

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2014
    The provision of weather insurance is a potential way of shielding farmers from weather related shocks and reducing poverty. However, the use of weather insurance is not widespread in many countries. In China, even with a government subsidy of 70 per cent, the take-up of weather insurance is quite low.
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    Urban poverty and safety net in Cambodia

    Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace, 2006
    The growing number in urban poor and lack of safety net for them are the challenges for the urban development in Cambodia. Compared to other countries in Asia, Cambodia is one of the poorest countries with 36 percent of people living under poverty line of which 21% in urban areas and 40 percent in rural areas.
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    Toward Measuring Household Vulnerability to Income Poverty in the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2008
    The measurement of vulnerability, as in the probability that a household becomes poor, is concomitant to the analysis of poverty. To estimate households' vulnerability to income poverty, this study used a modified probit model that considers volatilities in income per capita as explained by some household characteristics.
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    NGO’s approach to community development in rural Cambodia

    Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace, 2009
    In the year 2000, the eight Millennium Development Goals have been declared and require all developed and developing nations to cooperate and set target individually by 2015 for common enemy, the poverty. Regarding grassroots community development approach to tackle MDGs, some nongovernmental organizations have employed mainly empowerment approach to push the progress forward.
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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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    The impact of oportunidades on human capital and income distribution: a top-down/bottom-up approach

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2013
    In an effort to inform social policy in Mexico, this paper analyses the effects of a major social program on school attendance and household income distribution, accounting for its partial and general equilibrium effects.
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    Rio de Janeiro: favela policies and recent social mobilizations

    Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, 2013
    Urban poverty is spread out in the whole metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro. Different to most cities, Rio de Janeiro presents a close proximity between rich and poor neighbourhoods.
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    Small Farmers in High Value Chains: Binding or Relaxing Constraints to Inclusive Growth?

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2014
    Linking small farmers to modern markets, whether domestically or for export, increasingly entails participation in modern supply chains coordinated by contract farming. Concerns have been raised regarding the possible disadvantages from contract farming facing small farmers. Most empirical work points to a positive correlation between participation in contract farming and net farm income.

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