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    Social protection training day: overview

    Evidence on Demand, 2013
    This document is a summary of key points made by each speaker in the “Social Protection Training Day” event that took place in the UK in 2013.
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    Social Panorama of Latin America 2013

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2014
    This edition of the Social Panorama of Latin America discusses poverty from different angles, and in particular from amultidimensional perspective.
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    The health and well-being of older people in Nairobi’s slums

    African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2010
    Globally, it is estimated that people aged 60 and over constitute more than 11% of the population, with the corresponding proportion in developing countries being 8%. Rapid urbanisation in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), fuelled in part by rural urban migration and a devastating HIV/AIDS epidemic, has altered the status of older people in many SSA societies.
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    Measuring unpaid care work with public policy in mind

    UN Women, 2013
    Prepared for a UN Women expert group meeting on structural and policy constraints in achieving the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls, this paper by Valeria Esquivel concerns measuring unpaid care work with public policies in mind.
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    Caring for wellbeing

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2011
    Commissioned by the Bellagio Initiative as part of their Future of Philanthropy and Development in the Pursuit of Human Wellbeing series, this paper by IDS fellows Marzia Fontana and Rosalind Eyben presents an alternative to the development field’s traditional emphasis on economic growth over human wellbeing, and its ignorance of care as a public good that sustains and reproduces society and ma
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    Seen, heard and counted: rethinking care in a development context

    Development and Change Journal, 2012
    This is a diverse collection of contributions covering various aspects of care from around the world, from Chinese women’s burdens under economic reform, to the political and social organisation of childcare in Argentina.
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    Valuing and compensating caregivers for their contributions to community health and development in the context of HIV and AIDS: an agenda for action

    Huairou Commission, 2010
    This paper concerns the valuation and compensation of caregivers for their ongoing contribution to community health and development in the context of HIV and AIDS.
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    Home-Based Care Alliance policy brief: debunking myths

    Home-Based Care Alliance, 2013
    The Home-Based Care Alliance (HBCA) represents more than 30,000 caregivers organised into multi-district HBCAs in twelve African countries, caring for over 200,000 neighbours and friends, and with a history of organising around HIV/AIDS and its effects.
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    Home-Based Care Alliance (HBCA)

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    Old age pensions in Mexico: toward universal coverage

    Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2014
    In 2000, 22% of Mexico's seniors  (age 65 and older) received income  from a pension. Thirteen years later, 88% had pensions. Nearly all this increase in coverage was due to social pensions: Non-contributory benefits, unrelated to employment records.

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