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Searching with a thematic focus on Livelihoods, Livelihoods social protection, Poverty, Social protection, Social protection politics

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  A missing point in the livelihoods approach: the question of property rights

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2005

  This paper explores the relationship between property rights and livelihoods.
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  The role of fairness concerns in social protection and poverty reduction (Draft)

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2004

  This article studies differing notions of fairness between external and local actors and how they affect social protection systems and poverty reduction initiatives. Within social protection systems, the authors define effectiveness as being related to targeting, while within poverty reduction initiatives, effectiveness relates to the extent to which relations are maintainted with poor people.
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  Living on the boundary: institutional influences on the livelihoods of the extreme poor

  Proshika, 2003

  This study, from Proshika, seeks to understand the livelihood conditions of the many different extremely poor people living in Bangladesh by analyzing their livelihood constraints and opportunities.
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  Scaling up Kudumbashree: collective action for poverty alleviation and women's empowerment

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This paper discusses the factors that enabled and constrained the scaling up of a multisectoral poverty alleviation program called Kudumbashree, initiated by the government of Kerala (GOK), India, in 1998 to eradicate poverty by 2008. Kudumbashree was characterised by the creation of community development societies (CDS) and neighbourhood groups (NHG).
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  Government spending on children in MTEF 2004/05: spotlighting social development programmes

  Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2004

  This brief focuses on child specific government programmes financed and administered by the provincial social development departments within the South African government.
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  The goal of workers’ welfare and policy challenges

  Strengthening Participatory Organization, Pakistan, 2003

  Pakistan’s recent Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (I-PRSP) has been criticised for failing to mention any policies for redundant industrial labour.
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  The social impact of social funds in Jamaica: a participatory econometric” analysis of targeting, collective action, and participation in community-driven development

  Conference: Q-Squared in Practice: Experiences of Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Poverty Appraisal, May 2004, 2005

  Qualitative data from a case study of the Jamaica social investment fund (JSIF) reveal that the social fund process is elite-driven and decision making tends to be dominated by a small group of motivated individuals.
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  The politics of staying poor in Uganda

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2003

  This paper explores how political actors, processes, debates and institutions influence the reduction and reproduction of chronic poverty in Uganda.
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  Post offices, pension and computers: new opportunities for combining growth and social protection in weakly-integrated rural areas?

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2003

  India’s efforts in targeting a wide range of social protection measures towards different categories of poor people might be a model for other countries as they prepare their own Poverty Reduction Strategies.
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  The inequality of social capital: agency, association and the reproduction of chronic poverty.

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2003

  This paper draws on research in Tanzania to question ideas that building social capital through getting institutions right in development can overcome poverty .

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