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  A Youth Wage Subsidy Experiment for South Africa

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2014

  Unemployment and in particular youth unemployment is arguably one of the most pressing socio-economic issues facing South Africa. Over 3 million young people in South Africa are classified as unemployed.
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  Evaluating Indonesia’s Unconditional Cash Transfer Programme, 2005‒2006

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2012

  Indonesia implemented an unconditional cash transfer (UCT) programme from October 2005 to September 2006, with the aim of helping poor households overcome the adverse effects of a massive reduction in fuel subsidies in October 2005.
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  Interventions for promoting reintegration and reducing harmful behaviour and lifestyles in street-connected children and young people

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2014

  This systematic review summarises the evidence on effectiveness of interventions for street-connected children and young people that promote inclusion and reintegration and reduce harms. It explores the processes of successful intervention and models of change in this area, and aims to understand how intervention effectiveness may vary in different contexts.
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  The role of targeting in service delivery to vulnerable populations – the FANRPAN Household Vulnerability Index (HVI) - a synthesis of three country reports

  Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2009

  The objective of the Household Vulnerability Index (HVI) pilot study, conducted in Lesotho, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, was to further develop and test the HVI as a statistical tool for quantifying household vulnerability resulting from shocks such as HIV and AIDS. Key outputs from the study were a refined method for constructing the HVI and a computerised tool for its computation.
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  Formal and informal social protection in Iraq

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012

  This paper studies formal and informal insurance in Iraq, using empirical data from a household survey. In this respect, the document examines the types of risks that Iraqi households face, demonstrating the coping mechanisms they use to deal with them.
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  Predicted poverty impacts of expanding the Community Work Program me in South Africa: an analysis of income poverty and inequality

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2012

  The Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS), which guarantees low-skilled work to poor, unemployed individuals and in the process contributes to the creation of productive community assets and services.
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  Access to socio-economic rights for non-nationals in the Southern African Development Community

  Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2012

  While many countries in Africa are contemplating ways in which to extend access to social protection for their citizens, the enjoyment of socio-economic rights by non-nationals receives scarce commentary.
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  Social capital as obstacle to development: brokering land, norms, and trust in rural India

  MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, 2014

  During the 1990s, powerful development institutions like the World Bank came to see the social networks and norms of the rural poor in developing countries as 'assets' to be tapped for poverty alleviation.
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  Towards gender equality with care-sensitive social protection

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014

  This policy briefing argues that unpaid care work and social protection are intrinsically linked. Women and girls' uptake of social protection provisions is affected by their unpaid care work responsibilities. Conversely these essential provisions can help alleviate the drudgery and burden that unpaid care work places upon them.
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  Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) of workers welfare fund

  Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2012

  Government of Pakistan (GoP) has been facing challenges in ensuring workers’ welfare across the industrial entities of the country. While it has not been able to fully implement the macro-level labour reforms (e.g. the implementation of minimum wage – revised annually) however it is striving to put in place social safety nets such as Benazir Income Support Programmes.

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