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    How much can asset transfers help the poorest? The five Cs of community-level development and BRAC's Ultra-Poor Programme

    Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, 2010
    This paper evaluates the impact of an innovative programme that was implemented by BRAC in rural Bangladesh, aiming at assisting extremely poor households. The document clarifies that asset transfers constituted the centre-piece of this multidimensional programme, but it also included training, organisation building, cash supports and micro-finance.
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    Social transfers: a critical strategy to meet the MDGs

    HelpAge International, 2010
    Non-contributory pensions enable poor older people to provide for their future and the future of their families. Alongside other social transfer schemes, pensions are now being seen to help reduce old age and intergenerational poverty, and have improved income security, access to education, health status and gender equality across other age groups.
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    The impact of a minimum pension on old age poverty and its budgetary cost. Evidence from Latin America.

    Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, 2010
    Alleviating old age poverty requires a different approach from other age groups. This paper examines the impact on old age poverty and the fiscal cost of universal minimum old age pensions in Latin America using recent household survey data for 18 countries. The authors:
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    (Re)counting the poor in Peru: a multidimensional approach

    Centro de Investigación, Universidad del Pacífico, Peru, 2010
    This paper addresses the debate between the recent evolution of monetary poverty figures and the levels of deprivation of the Peruvian population. The paper relies on a multidimensional approach for poverty measurement to measure the tension between the incidence of monetary poverty and the overall level of deprivation in terms of a set of basic attributes for human development.
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    Achieving income security in old age for all Tanzanians: a study into the feasibility of a universal social pension

    HelpAge International, 2010
    In Tanzania, poverty rates amongst households containing an older person are 22.4 per cent higher than the national poverty rate.  In the past, security in old age was provided through a range of social protection mechanisms based on the extended family and community structures, but these traditional mechanisms are increasingly unable to cope.
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    Feminised recession: impact of the global financial crisis on women workers in the Philippines

    Oxfam, 2010
    In the Philippines, the financial crisis has been particularly hard on the low income classes to which many unskilled, mainly women workers in the semiconductor and electronics, and textile and garment industries belong.
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    Beyond the crisis: the impact of the financial crisis on women in Vietnam

    Oxfam, 2010
    Vietnamese women are over-represented in the export sector and live in deteriorating conditions due to the current global economic crisis. The objective of this study is to assess and identify the gender-differentiated impacts of the current crisis in both economic and social development aspects.
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    Cash transfers: to condition or not to condition?

    Eldis Gateway to Development and Environment Information, 2009
    In response to the recent food crisis and global financial crisis, the G-20 countries and the World Bank announced increased spending on social protection programmes, including cash-based systems.
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    Cash transfers, gender and generational relations: evidence from a pilot project in Lesotho

    Overseas Development Institute, 2008
    This paper reviews the World Vision's 'Cash and Food Transfers Pilot Project' in Lesotho, focusing on the impact of cash transfers on gender relations. The paper highlights the concerns that cash transfer programmes may have significant negative gender impacts. I the suspicions about women's ability to control the use of cash within the household compared to certain types of in-kind assistance.
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    Quantitative analysis of the impact of the Child Support Grant

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2008
    South Africa’s Child Support Grant, an unconditional social transfer programme, was originally designed to reduce poverty and promote social development for poor children under the age of seven. This study examines the programme’s various effects in reducing poverty, promoting human capital development and potentially contributing to economic growth.

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