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  Addressing the employment-poverty nexus in Kenya: comparing cash-transfer and job-creation programmes

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007

  What is the link between employment and poverty reduction in Kenya? This paper examines unemployment, underemployment, employment and labour earnings, and the relationship of all these with poverty. Based on an analysis of a Labour Force Survey, the author finds that:
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  Rethinking economic reform in Jordan: confronting socioeconomic realities

  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2007

  This paper explores the extent of and limits to the economic reform process in Jordan since 1989. It argues that the general public is sceptical about reforms because previous efforts failed to address the major social and economic problems affecting the majority of its citizens. Likewise, reform efforts face severe resistance from elites who benefit from the status quo.
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  Global Information on MicroInsurance

  GIMI, Internet platform of the STEP programme (Strategies and Tools against social Exclusion and Poverty) of the International Labour Office (ILO) bringing together actors from around the world, aimin
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  Fate and fear: risk and its consequences in Africa

  ESRC Global Poverty Research Group, 2007

  Africa is vulnerable to numerous risks and shocks, including drought, natural disasters, conflict and political instability, and high levels of child and adult mortality and morbidity. This paper reviews micro-level evidence on risk and its implications for growth and poverty in Africa. The following key points are emphasised: 
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  The Malawi social cash transfer scheme: preliminary lessons learned

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2006

  Evidence from a pilot social cash transfer programme in Malawi indicates that it is a cost-effective, quick way to meet the basic needs of ultra-poor households whose members are unable to work.
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  Making insurance work for the poor

  Global Development Research Center, 2006

  This briefing paper is an output from a conference held in 2005 on microfinance and microinsurance, attended by several international stakeholders, including DFID, the ILO and CGAP.For the purpose of the conference, microinsurance was defined as: "the protection of low income people against specific perils in exchange for regular premium payments proportionate to the likelihood and cost of the
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  Caste discrimination and the private sector

  India Committee of the Netherlands, 2005

  This report outlines the main arguments and issues raised in the seminar entitled ‘Employment Principles for Foreign Investors in South Asia’ held in 2004 in London. The seminar raised a number of important issues in relation to caste discrimination and foreign investment in South Asia.
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  Gendered implications of tax reform in Latin America: Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Jamaica

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005

  In the context of Latin American and Caribbean countries, this paper proposes that the most effective means for reducing class- and gender-based poverty and inequality is citizenship-based entitlements to basic (i.e.
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  Inventory of micro-insurance schemes in the Philippines

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  This working paper has been launched as part of the Global Campaign on Social Security and Coverage for All, which was initiated in June 2003. The paper makes the point that the majority of poor people, particularly women working in the informal sector, are often not protected against shocks through social security.
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  Recovery from the tsunami disaster: poverty reduction and sustainable development through microfinance

  Grameen Foundation USA, 2005

  This paper reports the findings of a team of specialists from the Grameen Foundation USA, deployed in the aftermath of the Boxing Day tsunami to assess conditions facing the poor and the effects of the disaster on the provision of microfinance.

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