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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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    Disparity, deprivation and discrimination in rural India

    Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2007
    Despite the good performance of India's economy in recent years, disadvantaged groups such as the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) face both higher incidence and intensity of poverty than other groups.
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    Evaluating the impact of Brazil’s Bolsa Família: Cash transfer programmes in comparative perspective

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007
    Created in 2004, Brazil's Bolsa Familia programme consists of monthly cash transfers to poor households with children or pregnant women and unconditional transfers to extremely poor households. This paper examines how successfully and efficiently Bolsa Familia eases poverty and breaks its intergenerational transmission.
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    Guidelines for cash transfer programming

    International Committee of the Red Cross, 2006
    This document presents a guide to cash transfer programming. It looks to ascertain whether a cash programme is an appropriate response – and if appropriate a practical, step-by-step guide how to design and implement a cash programme is illustrated. The three sections in the paper discuss the following areas:
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    A regional multiplier approach to estimating the impact of cash transfers: the case of cash aid in rural Malawi

    Munich Re, 2007
    This paper analyses the impact of the Dowa Emergency Cash Transfer (DECT) programme in Dowa, Malawi, on the local economy. The programme consisted of cash transfers to households over a duration of five months. Transfers were adjusted to household size and changes in staple food prices. According to the authors, the programme was a success as:
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    Conditional cash transfers: why targeting and conditionalities could fail

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007
    This International Poverty Centre paper advocates a universal income grant as a foundation for basic economic security. Its approach views targeting and conditionalities as both unnecessary and counter-productive.
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    Using mixed methods to assess social capital in low income countries: a practical guide

    Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2007
    Social capital enables information-sharing, mitigates opportunistic behaviour and facilitates collective decision-making. It is therefore necessary to understand the dynamic nature of interpersonal and group relations.
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    The social protection policy in Malawi: processes, politics and challenges

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2007
    This paper analyses the evolution of Malawi's social protection policy which is nearing its completion. It is critical of the fact that  there has been no accompanying nationwide debate and dialogue and puts forward the following possible explanations:
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    Living in the background: home-based women workers and poverty persistence

    Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2007
    This paper examines the relationship between home-based work and persistent poverty in certain parts of South and South East Asia. The author argues that an expanded conception of social protection is needed if poverty prevention initiatives are to be effective in the case of home-based women workers.
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    The process of social exclusion: the dynamics of an evolving concept

    Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2007
    What is the difference between social exclusion and chronic poverty? This paper examines some of the mechanisms of individuals’ downward spiral towards social disaffiliation. With a focus on Europe, it provides an analysis of social exclusion beyond that of monetary or material resource distribution, and compares it to chronic poverty.

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