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  Information and communication technologies (ICTs) and poverty reduction in Sub Saharan Africa: a learning study (synthesis)

  Gerster Consulting, 2003

  This study is based on the Building Digital Opportunities programme (BDO), which aims to identify and help remove some of the key barriers to poverty-focused ICT for development.
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  Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA): common themes and issues arising from five pilot studies

  PRSP Monitoring and Synthesis Project, 2002

  This paper outlines some common themes and issues arising from the conduct of Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) of macroeconomic and structural policy reforms. It draws on the experience and interim findings of five PSIA pilot studies carried out in 2002.
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  Food-based safety nets and related programs

  World Bank, 2002

  This paper discusses the range of food-based transfers that are typically used in social safety net programs.
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  Incentives and the role of institutions in the provision of social safety nets

  World Bank, 2002

  This paper demonstrates that institutions matter in the design and implementation of social programs in general and for social safety net programs in particular.
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  Assisting the poor with cash: design and implementation of social transfer programs

  World Bank, 2002

  This paper explores the role of cash transfers in a social safety net. It explores key factors that affect the choice between a cash-based program and an in-kind transfer program, and presents a number of design considerations that influence the efficiency and effectiveness of cash transfers as a social safety net.
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  PRS Monitoring in Africa

  PRSP Monitoring and Synthesis Project, 2003

  This note covers Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) and poverty monitoring systems in eight African countries (Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia). It sheds light on monitoring systems for PRSPs in Africa, stating that there is still a lot of scope for civil society involvement.
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  Safety net programs and poverty reduction: lessons from cross-country experience

  World Bank, 1997

  This book analyses the concepts, issues and country experience on social safety nets, to help policy makers and program managers allocate limited budgets to social safety nets and designing social safety net programs that are cost-effective, well-targeted, and efficient, while not displacing private transfers.The following areas are examined:conceptual issues, including targeting costs,
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  Tracking of poverty-reducing public spending in Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs)

  International Monetary Fund, 2001

  Public spending is critical for reducing poverty in developing countries, but only if it is targeted effectively. This paper summarises the preliminary findings of a joint World Bank-IMF public expenditure working group.
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  Infrastructure and pro-poor growth: implications of recent research

  Department for International Development, UK, 2002

  This paper reviews research of the last ten years on the role of infrastructure in development with a view to identifying the issues in need of further attention in the infrastructure sectors if the world is to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), especially that of halving the proportion of people who were living on less than one dollar per day in 1990, by 2015.
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  Chronic poverty and social protection

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2003

  Recent perspectives on social protection focus on risk and vulnerability to poverty and attempt to integrate a wide range of interventions to prevent risk, reduce vulnerability, and ameliorate the impact of risk realisations. Risk and vulnerability contribute to poverty directly, e.g.

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