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    Social issues under economic transformation and integration in Vietnam, Volume 1

    Vietnam Development Forum, 2008
    Fast growth and integration has intensified social problems in Vietnam. New problems have also arisen. Rapidly urbanising areas are experiencing issues with street children, prostitution, and HIV/AIDS epidemic transmission. Nationally there are problems in the education system and social welfare, rising inequality, and in elderly populations.
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    Uninsured risk and asset protection: can conditional cash transfer programs serve as safety nets?

    Social Development, World Bank, 2006
    Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes have proved to be effective in inducing chronic poor households to invest in the human capital of their children while helping reduce poverty. They have also protected child human capital from the shocks that affect these households.
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    Can all cash transfers reduce inequality?

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007
    This one-page document examines the impact of three Latin American Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programmes providing cash transfers to poor families, conditioned on children’s school attendance and regular medical checks-ups.
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    South Asia economic report: social sectors in transition

    Asian Development Bank, 2006
    This second issue of the South Asia Economic Report (SAER) discusses social sectors in transition, with a particular focus on education and health. It looks at transformational trends and their impact on the education and health sectors and proposes measures to manage these social sectors through this transition.
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    Where is education in the conditional cash transfers of education?

    UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2006
    This paper examines the educational effects of conditional cash transfers (CCT) for education. The study finds that based on the evidence reviewed in this paper, there is very limited support for the conclusion that CCTs are effective educational instruments, in particular with regards to their ability to increase learning.
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    Education access and retention for educationally marginalised children: innovations in social protection

    Mobile Task Team on the Impact of HIV/AIDS on Education, 2005
    This report looks at the effectiveness of social protection programmes for educationally marginalised children (EMC) in Eastern and Southern Africa.
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    Using social transfers to scale up equitable access to education and health services

    Department for International Development, UK, 2006
    This paper focuses on the impact of one form of demand-side policy option – social transfers, particularly cash transfers and vouchers - on access to health and education services by the extreme poor.
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    PROGRESA and its impacts on the welfare of rural households in Mexico

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005
    In early 1998, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) was asked to assist the PROGRESA administration to "determine if PROGRESA is functioning in practice as it is intended to by design".
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    A new approach to social assistance: Latin America’s experience with conditional cash transfer programs

    World Bank, 2004
    This paper reviews the experience of the Latin America and Caribbean region in introducing conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes which provide money to poor families conditional upon investments in human capital, usually sending children to school and/or bringing them to health centers on a regular basis.
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    Delivery mechanisms of cash transfer programs to the poor in Bangladesh

    World Bank, 2005
    This paper examines the practical issues and financial costs of delivering cash benefits from source to recipients. An analysis of cost-effective mechanisms for this purpose is also presented.The study analyses three alternative delivery methods used in Bangladesh. Issues concerning targeting and the leakage of funds is also examined.

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