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Social protection in Asia and the Pacific
Asian Development Bank Institute, 2002The publication is a practical and comprehensive manual for policy-makers and professionals in the field.DocumentImpacts of the Indonesian economic crisis: price changes and the poor
National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 1999Did the recent financial crisis in Indonesia result in dramatic price increases? In the Indonesian case the very poor appear the most vulnerable.DocumentSelf-Targeted Subsidies: The Distributional Impact of the Egyptian Food Subsidy System
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000Food subsidy programs are under increasing criticism in many developing countries because of their large contributions to government budget deficits.DocumentCommunity based rural development: reducing rural poverty from the ground up
Rural Development Strategy Team, World Bank, 2001This article investigates Community Based Rural Development, which is an approach to reducing rural poverty that promotes collective action by communities and puts them in control of development interventions by making community based organizations (CBOs) driving forces in the process.Conclusions:CBOs directly manage most project resources.DocumentSocial funds in stabilization and adjustment programmes
World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 1999Social Funds (SFs) have proven to be no panacea.DocumentMaking less last longer: informal safety nets in Malawi
Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999Examines role of informal safety nets in providing protection against livelihood shocks.Summarises state of knowledge on informal safety nets by reviewing available literature and also reporting on household survey carried out in Malawi in 1999.Key finding is that informal transfers, either between rich and poor or the poor themselves, appear to be declining over time, partly as a general coPages