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  Multidimensional poverty in Indonesia: trends, interventions and lesson learned

  Global Institute for Asian Regional Integration, Waseda University, 2008

  This paper describes the current state of multidimensional poverty in Indonesia and reviews the characteristics of major programs designed to address multidimensional poverty, their implementation problems and impacts. It also details the lessons from the Indonesian experience which can be applied to future targeted social protection programs to address human security in Indonesia
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  Population ageing in Malawi: understanding challenges, responding to opportunities: proceedings of the meeting held in Lilongwe, Malawi on 28-29 November 2007

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2008

  This report summarises the themes that emerged as priorities as a result of papers presented at a joint BSF (Bingu Silvergrey Foundation for the Elderly) / FAO meeting on population ageing issues in Malawi: Papers presented covered:
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  Salt, soap and shoes for school, evaluation report. The impact of pensions on the lives of older people and grandchildren in the KwaWazee project in Tanzania’s Kagera region

  Kwa Wazee, 2008

  Cash transfers have become an increasingly popular way of providing social protection in low-income African countries. This study aims to find out more about the impact of social pensions for older people and the combination with child benefits in older people headed households, and what can be learnt from the experiences with this approach in the Kwa Wazee project in Tanzania.
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  Basic Income Grant: there is no alternative!

  School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2008

  A basic income grant (BIG) is a universal transfer to all those with the right to be in a country (citizens by birth, by naturalisation, or persons with rights of permanent residence).
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  Towards a basic income grant for all: Basic Income Grant pilot project assessment report, September 2008

  BIG coalition namibia, 2008

  Namibia has one of the highest levels of income inequality in the world, a by-product of colonialism, apartheid and recent economic policies. To address inequality, the Namibian Government’s Namibian Tax Consortium (NAMTAX) identified the need for a universal grant in the form of a Basic Income Grant (BIG), to be financed out of a progressive expenditure tax on non-poor people, in 2002.
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  Sharing demographic risk – who is afraid of the baby bust?

  Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging, 2008

  Falling fertility rates and increasing life expectancy are putting a strain on existing public Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) pension systems. The authors model the optimal reaction of a pubic PAYGO pension system to demographic shocks. They assume the existence of a fully committed planner.
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  Reforms to an individual account pension system and their effects on work and contribution decisions: the case of Chile

  Pension Research Council, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2008

  This study evaluates the effect of Chile’s pension system rules and regulations on individuals’ contribution and working decisions. In 1980 Chile was the first country to switch from a pay-as-you-go system to a
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  The impact of the demographic dividend on three key support systems: education, health care, and pensions

  2008

  The possible economic benefits of the demographic dividend and the possible detrimental aspects of population ageing both originate in the economic life cycle  a pattern of economic activity that has been found to be broadly similar across countries, with some important variations.
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  Cash transfers and child labour: an intriguing relationship

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2008

  Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes provide cash to poor households. In return, the households are expected to meet the conditionalities attached to schooling, among others. Several evaluations have found positive impacts on primary school attendance. This one page article considers how CCT programmes have impacted on Child Labour.
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  Do cash transfers enable the very poor to save?

  Oxford Policy Management, 2008

  Experiences from around show that building poor people’s capacities to accumulate assets for the long term is central to poverty reduction. In this process, household savings play a particularly significant role. Contrary to what one might assume, evidence increasingly points to the fact that poor people are able to and do save.

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