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Insurance products provided by insurance companies to the disadvantaged groups in India
International Labour Organization, 2005This study identifies and documents the various insurance products provided by insurance companies to the disadvantaged groups in India. It is designed to help development professional to play a more efficient role in the promotion of new insurance services and thus contributing to the extension of social protection to the excluded groups.DocumentDFID Social Exclusion Review
Department for International Development, UK, 2005This report reviews and synthesises experiences of working with social exclusion both within DFID and among other agencies. It examines how DFID staff members understand social exclusion and points to the risks, challenges and opportunities they associate with using the term social exclusion. It also reviews work that has been undertaken across DFID's regional programmes and at a policy level.DocumentInsurance for the poor?
Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 2005This paper discusses the scope for extending insurance to the poor in Latin America and Carribbean (LAC) countries. It highlights the need to reduce risk and its consequences, as current systems do not provide sufficient protection. On this basis, it argues that insurance provision to the poor has a role to play within a comprehensive system of protection against risk.DocumentMicrofinance and the state: exploring areas and structures of collaboration
Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2005This paper reviews the performance of formal institutional channels of microfinance and discusses the emergence of new forms of collaboration in the delivery of microfinance services. Some pertinent issues in regulatory policies and institutional arrangements that can help the state effectively and in a sustainable manner leverage the available resources for the poor are also dealt with.DocumentA lecture on the political economy of targeted safety nets
World Bank, 2005This paper sheds light on the importance of political support towards designing safety net policies. In drawing on the crisis safety net programs in Indonesia from 1998 to 2000, the author reviews 5 major issues namely, models of electoral politics, safety ropes vs.DocumentMicrofinance institutions in Nigeria: policy, practice and potentials
Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four, 2004This study examines the outreach performance of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Nigeria, based on a survey of ten major MFIs.DocumentBuilding budgets from below
Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2004This paper investigates the degrees of freedom available to women (elected to self-government) to determine local and macro fiscal policies.DocumentGovernment spending on children in MTEF 2004/05: spotlighting social development programmes
Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2004This brief focuses on child specific government programmes financed and administered by the provincial social development departments within the South African government.DocumentDecentralisation and poverty in developing countries: exploring the impact
OECD Development Centre, 2004This paper finds that the link between decentralisation and poverty reduction cannot be clearly established. It argues that in some of the poorest countries characterised by weak institutions and political conflicts, decentralisation could actually make matters worse.