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    A social pension in Zambia: perceptions of the cash transfer pilot in Katete

    HelpAge International, 2009
    The Government of Zambia, via its Ministry of Community Development and Social Services (MCDSS), has been running a set of pilot cash transfers to test which could best form the basis of a national social protection system. The pilot being run in the Katete district transfers money to everyone over the age of 60 years, thus creating a form of social pension.
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    Social protection policy: responses to older people’s needs in Zanzibar

    HelpAge International, 2009
    Zanzibar runs a system of contributory pensions (the ZSSF) covering those employed in the public and formal sectors.  But overall, only about 40 per cent of older people receive any form of cash payment in their old age. Changing family structures, migration and general poverty have eroded traditional patterns of support, and even where support exists, it is normally inadequate.
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    Targeting social cash transfers

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2009
    In the process of defining the target group for the Malawi Social Cash Transfer Scheme (SCTS) the Government had to choose between universal targeting and poverty targeting and between categorical concepts and inclusive concepts.
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    Conditional cash transfers do not discourage work in Mexico

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Conditional cash transfer programmes have become increasingly popular in developing countries as a tool for tackling poverty. But some policymakers are concerned that such programmes create disincentives to work. Evidence from a large cash transfer programme in Mexico shows that it does not discourage people from working.
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    Linkages between pro-poor growth, social programmes and labour market: the recent Brazilian experience

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2009
    Known since the 1960s as one of the most unequal countries in the world, poverty and inequality in Brazil have recently declined in spite of negative growth. What factors explain what has occurred in Brazil?
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    Are Cash Transfers a Suitable Alternative to Energy and Food Subsidies?

    Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2008
    As rising energy and food prices reached their peak, subsidies have come under increased scrutiny as a means of supporting the poor. Not only do they put a severe strain on government budgets, more often than not they miss their target owing to leakages, corruption and price distortions. An alternative to subsidies may consist in conditional cash transfers to the poor.
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    "Ever upwardly mobile": how do cellphones benefit vulnerable people? Lessons from farming cooperatives in Lesotho

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2009
    While there is growing evidence of cash transfers reducing hunger and vulnerability, less is known about effective delivery mechanisms for such transfers, particularly in remote areas. In this respect, information and communication technologies appear to offer some interesting possibilities.
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    Assessing the impact of poverty reduction policies and programmes

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Since the late 1990s, the international aid system has become more focused on tackling poverty. The poverty reduction agenda, with its central themes of economic growth, social development and good governance, has been adopted by all the major donors. But is it working for poor people?
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    Taking the long view to provide social protection for children

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Children are vulnerable in different ways to adults. Mainstream social protection programmes must therefore take account of their differing needs.Recognising how deprivation and poverty are transmitted across generations and across time requires programmes to take a long-term view, tackling multiple deprivations through protective as well as transformative ways.
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    Asset-based approach to addressing climate change

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Governments and international agencies have been slow to understand the impact of climate change on poor urban communities. Many planners remain unwilling to work with members of informal communities, even when they house a third or more of a city’s population.

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