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    Social security systems around the world

    Population Reference Bureau, 2009
    Social security programs are increasing in number around the world.  Systems in many of countrieshave funding problems. Social security may also have unintended effects on economic and demographic behaviour in a country. Many of these behaviors are only now beginning to be understood. This briefing looks at:
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    Living with our Bibi: a qualitative study of children living with grandmothers in the Nshamba area of north western Tanzania

    HelpAge International, 2008
    The Kwa Wazee Project works with grandparents and the grandchildren who live with them (generally orphaned as a result of HIV/AIDS) in the Kagera district of Tanzania. The main activity of the Project is to provide a cash transfer in the form of a pension to grandparents (mostly grandmothers). Grannies get small monthly pensions for themselves and for the grandchildren they support.
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    The 2008 Chilean reform to first-pillar pensions

    CESifo, 2009
    The Chilean Congress approved in January 2008 the replacement of her two current non-contributory subsidies for the old poor (“first pillar”) with a unified program with a pioneering design. This paper describes the policy process and evaluates the new design. The first finding is that reform was not driven by poverty among the old.
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    Pension provision: government failure around the world

    Institute of Economic Affairs, 2009
    This survey of government interventions in pension provision examines the different issues surrounding pensions and public policy in a range of high, middle and low-income countries.In particular it argues that widespread difficulties with state pension schemes make it surprising that there is not more favourable acceptance of private provision for income in old age.
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    Promoting agriculture for social protection or social protection for agriculture: strategic policy and research issues

    Future Agricultures Consortium, 2006
    Developing pro-poor policies for agricultural development is important in countries with a large rural poor. In conjunction, there is also need to focus on social protection in order to address the risk and insecurity that the rural poor face. However, current policy fails to sufficiently link agricultural with social protection policies.
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    Looking at social protection through a livelihoods lens

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    This issue of In Focus is a collection of briefing notes that explore and contribute to the thinking and practice of social protection. These briefs help in understanding social protection; building the evidence base; understanding what is happening where; and considering future directions for social protection.
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    Tackling poverty in old age: a universal pension for Sri Lanka

    HelpAge International, 2008
    While 25% of Sri Lanka's population will be older than 60 years by 2041, the country's existing pension system is unable to guarantee a minimum income to the elderly since:
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    Multidimensional poverty in Indonesia: trends, interventions and lesson learned

    Global Institute for Asian Regional Integration, Waseda University, 2008
    This paper describes the current state of multidimensional poverty in Indonesia and reviews the characteristics of major programs designed to address multidimensional poverty, their implementation problems and impacts. It also details the lessons from the Indonesian experience which can be applied to future targeted social protection programs to address human security in Indonesia
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    Population ageing in Malawi: understanding challenges, responding to opportunities: proceedings of the meeting held in Lilongwe, Malawi on 28-29 November 2007

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2008
    This report summarises the themes that emerged as priorities as a result of papers presented at a joint BSF (Bingu Silvergrey Foundation for the Elderly) / FAO meeting on population ageing issues in Malawi: Papers presented covered:
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    Salt, soap and shoes for school, evaluation report. The impact of pensions on the lives of older people and grandchildren in the KwaWazee project in Tanzania’s Kagera region

    Kwa Wazee, 2008
    Cash transfers have become an increasingly popular way of providing social protection in low-income African countries. This study aims to find out more about the impact of social pensions for older people and the combination with child benefits in older people headed households, and what can be learnt from the experiences with this approach in the Kwa Wazee project in Tanzania.

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