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    Evaluation of MDS Policies and Programs, Results. Volume 2: Bolsa Família Program and Social Assistance

    2007
    Brazil’s social protection policy, and in particular its Bolsa Familia programme, has been much discussed as a potentially valuable export to other rising powers, as well as to low-income countries looking to implement rights-based social protection policy.
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    The riddle of the third sector: civil society, western aid and NGOs in Russia

    Anthropological Quarterly, 2004
    This article explores the forms and logic of political activism encouraged by international development agencies in Russia, by focusing on the project to promote civil society development. It argues that the version of civil society that has been brought into being by western design - the third sector - is far from what Russian activists desired and what donor agencies promised.
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    The elderly and old age support in rural China: challenges and prospects

    World Bank, 2012
    Although average incomes in China have risen dramatically since the 1980s, concerns are increasing that the rural elderly have not benefited from growth to the same extent as younger people and the urban elderly. This book explores the evolution of the rural pension system in China over the past two decades and raises a number of issues on its current implementation and future directions.
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    The future of family support for Thai elderly: views of the populace

    Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2012
    The number of older persons in Thailand will increase substantially during the coming decades. This paper indicates that future Thai cohorts entering the old age span will have fewer and more dispersed children to depend on while at the same time likely survive to increasingly older ages.The paper shows that:
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    A Socio-economic Study of Informal Sector Workers of Dhaka City

    Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2012
    Informal sector is a very important area of the economy for any developing country; it is a growing occupational sector for the less skilled people, living both in urban and rural areas. Considerable amount of employment are ensured by this sector. What is specific to the informal economy is the absence of rights and social protection of the workers involved in it.
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    Livelihoods, basic services and social protection in northern Uganda and Karamoja

    Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium, 2012
    The effects of three decades of violence on the populations of Uganda’s Greater North have been immense, and one challenge lies in identifying what policies and programmes can help these populations recover and adapt their livelihoods in a post-conflict environment.
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    Livelihoods, basic services and social protection in Afghanistan

    Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium, 2012
    Afghanistan is a low-income country with conflicting cultures and rooted terrorism. This paper examines the current developmental context in Afghanistan, exploring the roles of national policies and external aids in that case.
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    Livelihoods, basic services and social protection in Nepal

    Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium, 2012
    Nepal has made good progress against most socio-economic indicators in the aftermath of armed conflict (1996-2006), and there has been a decline in material poverty. At the same time, significant policy challenges remain and need to be addressed through well-designed and targeted interventions.This paper addresses these issues presenting the following findings:
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    Livelihoods, basic services and social protection in north-western Pakistan

    Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium, 2012
    Poverty, livelihoods, food insecurity, access to basic services, social protection and aid and governance in conflict-affected areas of Pakistan are issues that need to be closely addressed.
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    Social protection for food security: A report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition

    2012
    Social protection has risen rapidly up the development policy agenda in the last decade. There is also a clear trend to making social protection, as well as food security, ‘rights-based’ rather than ‘discretionary’. Yet no clear consensus has so far emerged concerning many basic design choices and implementation of social protection policies and programs.

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