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    Proxy means tests for targeting subsidies scheme in Iran

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2013
    Iran’s most recent Five Year Economic Development Plan proposes a subsidy reform to eliminate subsidies, especially those on fuel and energy as well as on food and to replace them with targeted social assistance.
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    Duration to coverage: dynamics of access to social security in the Egyptian labor market in the 1998-2012 period

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2014
    This paper investigates the dynamics of having access to social insurance (SI) coverage on the Egyptian labor market among wage workers throughout 1998 to 2012.
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    Social protection global policy trends 2010-2015: from fiscal consolidation to expanding social protection: Key to crisis recovery, inclusive development and social justice

    International Labour Organization, 2014
    While social protection played a strong role in the expansionary response immediately after the onset of the global crisis, many governments embarked on fiscal consolidation and premature contraction of expenditures from 2010 onwards, despite an urgent need of public support among vulnerable populations.
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    Even it up: time to end extreme inequality

    Oxfam, 2014
    Using new research and examples, this report shows the scale of the problem of extreme economic inequality, and reveals the multiple dangers it poses to people everywhere. It identifies the two powerful driving forces that have led to the rapid rise in inequality in so many countries: market fundamentalism and the capture of politics by elites.
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    Social protection for older persons: Key policy trends and statistics

    International Labour Organization, 2014
    In recent years, many middle-and low-income countries have made great efforts to expand the coverage of contributory pension schemes and to establish non-contributory pensions to guarantee basic income security in old age to all.
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    Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program and school attendance: early indications of success

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2011
    Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (the 4Ps) is a conditional cash transfer programme that aims to improve the living conditions of poor households while at the same time encouraging them to increase their investments on the education and health of their children.
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    Global AgeWatch Index 2014: insight report

    HelpAge International, 2014
    The Global AgeWatch Index has been created because of the overall lack of information on ageing combined with poor understanding of the effects of ageing on exclusion and marginalisation in services such as health care, education, training and pension provision.
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    Research briefing: Antipoverty transfers and inclusive growth in Brazil

    International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014
    The evolution of antipoverty policy in Brazil suggests a shift in focus over time from the extension of social insurance to incorporate excluded sectors, to conventional social assistance directed at vulnerable groups, to human development focused income transfers. This research briefing looks at the evolution of social assistance in Brazil and possble relevance for African countries.
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    Antipoverty transfers and inclusive growth in Brazil

    International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014
    Brazil’s has attracted considerable attention among low and middle income countries for the way it has successfully combined economic and social policies to reduce poverty, inequality, and social exclusion. The emergence of large scale social assistance institutions addressing poverty and social exclusion is central to these achievements.
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    Universal health protection: progress to date and the way forward

    International Labour Organization, 2014
    This paper proposes policy options based on ILO research and experiences that aim at universal coverage and equitable access to health care. The policy options discussed focus on ensuring the human rights to social security and health and on the rights-based approaches underpinning the need for equity and poverty alleviation.

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