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    The impact of economic resource transfers to women versus men: a systematic review

    Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre, 2012
    What is the evidence of the impact on family well-being of giving economic resources to women relative to the impact of giving them to men? This review is of interest to policy-makers and funders in developed and developing countries, given the recent growth in the number of poverty alleviation transfer programs that implicitly or explicitly designate women as transfer recipients.
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    Social Protection Floor (SPF)

    A Social Protection Floor (SPF) is the first level of a comprehensive national social protection system. It is comprised of:
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    The Social Protection Index: assessing results for Asia and the Pacific

    Asian Development Bank, 2013
    Strengthening social protection represents a priority contribution to achieving inclusive growth, one of the three main pillars of the Asian Development Bank (ADB’s) Strategy 2020. This report analyses comprehensive 2009 data on government social protection programmes in 35 countries in Asia and the Pacific.
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    My rights, my voice annual progress report 2012

    Oxfam, 2013
    My Rights, My Voice (MRMV) is an innovative three-year global programme, engaging marginalised children and youth in their rights to health and education services in eight countries.
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    Achieving a demographic dividend

    Population Reference Bureau, 2012
    The demographic dividend refers to the accelerated economic growth that begins with changes in the age structure of a country’s population as it transitions from high to low birth and death rates.
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    Tailoring social protection to small island developing states: lessons learned from the Caribbean

    Social Protection and Labor, World Bank, 2013
    Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have made significant commitment to address the needs of the vulnerable, as reflected by their level of spending, and the numerous safety net programs, labour market interventions, and insurance schemes. Nevertheless gaps remain, as many vulnerable groups are underserved and the systems show limited responsiveness to shocks.
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    Population ageing in Ghana: research gaps and the way forward

    Journal of Aging Research, 2010
    Although Ghana can still be classified as a having youthful population, reductions in fertility and mortality have resulted in increase in both the proportion and absolute number of elderly population. With the proportion of the elderly population currently at 7.2 percent, Ghana has one of the highest proportions of persons aged 60+ years in sub-Saharan Africa.
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    Beyond food security: transforming the PSNP in Ethiopia for the well-being of children

    Young Lives, 2012
    Using Young Lives survey and qualitative data collected in 2006 and 2009 among rural households and children in Ethiopia, this paper investigates the possible impacts of the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) on children’s well-being and recommends child-focused social protection that goes beyond the PSNP.
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    Pension coverage in China and the expansion of the New Rural Social Pension Scheme

    HelpAge International, 2013
    In just over 60 years, the pension system in China has changed from a residual policy issue in the shadow of major economic reform, to one that is now intrinsically linked to socio-economic transformation in China and underpins the transition from an export-driven to a consumption-based economy.
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    Social assistance and successful advocacy in Georgia: A social protection case study

    Oxfam, 2012
    Georgia, a lower middle-income country with a population of 4.5 million, gained independence in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Despite steady economic growth since 2004, living standards have failed to improve. A large percentage of people remain poor. Officially a third of the population live in poverty, with 15 percent of these living in ‘extreme poverty’.

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