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    Basic Income Grant: there is no alternative!

    School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2008
    A basic income grant (BIG) is a universal transfer to all those with the right to be in a country (citizens by birth, by naturalisation, or persons with rights of permanent residence).
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    Towards a basic income grant for all: Basic Income Grant pilot project assessment report, September 2008

    BIG coalition namibia, 2008
    Namibia has one of the highest levels of income inequality in the world, a by-product of colonialism, apartheid and recent economic policies. To address inequality, the Namibian Government’s Namibian Tax Consortium (NAMTAX) identified the need for a universal grant in the form of a Basic Income Grant (BIG), to be financed out of a progressive expenditure tax on non-poor people, in 2002.
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    Sharing demographic risk – who is afraid of the baby bust?

    Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging, 2008
    Falling fertility rates and increasing life expectancy are putting a strain on existing public Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) pension systems. The authors model the optimal reaction of a pubic PAYGO pension system to demographic shocks. They assume the existence of a fully committed planner.
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    Reforms to an individual account pension system and their effects on work and contribution decisions: the case of Chile

    Pension Research Council, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2008
    This study evaluates the effect of Chile’s pension system rules and regulations on individuals’ contribution and working decisions. In 1980 Chile was the first country to switch from a pay-as-you-go system to a
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    The impact of the demographic dividend on three key support systems: education, health care, and pensions

    2008
    The possible economic benefits of the demographic dividend and the possible detrimental aspects of population ageing both originate in the economic life cycle  a pattern of economic activity that has been found to be broadly similar across countries, with some important variations.
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    Cash transfers and child labour: an intriguing relationship

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2008
    Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes provide cash to poor households. In return, the households are expected to meet the conditionalities attached to schooling, among others. Several evaluations have found positive impacts on primary school attendance. This one page article considers how CCT programmes have impacted on Child Labour.
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    Do cash transfers enable the very poor to save?

    Oxford Policy Management, 2008
    Experiences from around show that building poor people’s capacities to accumulate assets for the long term is central to poverty reduction. In this process, household savings play a particularly significant role. Contrary to what one might assume, evidence increasingly points to the fact that poor people are able to and do save.
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    Extreme poverty in Bangladesh: protecting and promoting rural livelihoods

    Overseas Development Institute, 2008
    In spite of recent economic growth, Bangladesh remains a country marked by high poverty. Poverty is particularly high in rural areas where the vast majority of people depend on agriculture. In this context, the government and NGOs are implementing various social protection interventions to provide the poorest households with safety nets. But how effective have these initiatives been?
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    'We are all poor here’: economic difference, social divisiveness, and targeting cash transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa

    University of Sussex, UK, 2008
    Although most social transfer schemes tend to confront targeting difficulties, this poses a particular challenge in poor Sub-Saharan African countries where very little distinguishes the economic conditions of the bottom 50-60 percent of the population, more so in rural areas. While this has been the experience for several programmes, the evidence is as yet of an anecdotal nature.
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    The search for synergies between social protection and livelihood promotion: the agriculture case

    Overseas Development Institute, 2004
    How and how far can social protection measures also be livelihood promoting? And how far can livelihood promotion in agriculture contribute to social protection?  This ODI working paper reports on a DFID Natural Resources and Agriculture Team project reviewing the linkages between social protection and agricultural and rural growth.

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