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  Making cash count: lessons from cash transfer schemes in east and southern Africa for supporting the most vulnerable children and households

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This study reviews unconditional cash transfers in 15 countries of east and southern Africa. It examines four programmes in more depth, in Ethiopia, Lesotho, Mozambique and Zambia, with an emphasis on design issues such as cost-effectiveness, accuracy of targeting, delivery modalities, institutionalisation and potential for scaling up.
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  At all costs?: applying the means test for the Child Support Grant

  Children's Institute, University of Cape Town, 2005

  This paper estimates the cost of the means test for the Child Support Grant (CSG) in South Africa to Government and to applicants.The main findings include: the mean cost to the government (DSD and SAPS) of applying the means test is estimated at R165 020 million under the current regulationsthe average cost to CSG applicants, in complying with the requirements of the means test, is
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  The equality predicament: report on the world social situation 2005

  UN, 2005

  This report traces the trends and patterns in economic and non-economic aspects of inequality and examines their causes and consequences across and within regions and countries.
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  How does working as a child affect wage, income and poverty as an adult?

  World Bank, 2005

  This study assesses the future poverty impact of child labour. Drawing on empircal evidence from Brazil, the report examines the trends and tradeoffs between education and child labour.
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  Social security for children in the context of AIDS: questioning the state's response

  Medical Research Council, South Africa, 2004

  This paper argues that the existing state security provision is not a sufficient mechanism to support poor orphans and vulnerable children.
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  Children in need of care or in need of cash? Questioning social security provisions for orphans in the context of the South African AIDS pandemic

  Children's Institute, University of Cape Town, 2003

  The South African debate on social security provision for children in the context of the HIV/AIDS pandemic has focussed primarily on different mechanisms for giving cash grants to children who have been orphaned.
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  Innocenti Social Monitor 2004: the MONEE Project CEE/CIS/Baltic states

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2004

  This paper reviews four areas of child poverty and well-being in CEE, CIS and Baltic States, exploring links with issues such as economic growth, labour markets, migration and drugs use. It argues that a rights based approach must be taken to ensure inclusion, participation and redistribution of the benefits of economic progress.
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  Child poverty and cash transfers

  Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004

  This paper addresses the effectiveness of cash transfers in addressing childhood poverty in developing and transition economies.
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  Child poverty, child socio-economic rights and Budget 2003 - The ‘right thing’ or a small step in the ‘right direction’?

  Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2003

  This budget brief assesses the extent to which the 2003 South African Budget addresses widespread child poverty and the delivery of children's socio-economic rights.
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  Actual and de facto childlessness in East Java: a preliminary analysis

  Oxford Institute of Ageing, 2002

  The limitations of state provision in developing countries have meant that research on elderly welfare has more or less inevitably focussed on support available via family systems. The short answer to the question “What help exists for poor and frail elderly people?” presupposes a simple solution: their children.

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