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    Cash transfers - mere 'Gadaffi syndrome', or serious potential for rural rehabilitation and development?

    Overseas Development Institute, 2005
    This paper argues that social protection can complement supply side policies. It is also less of a drain on public resources than previously thought. Most notably, cash transfers: are cheaper to administer than in-kind transfers
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    Achievements and shortfalls of conditional cash transfers: impact evaluation of Paraguay’s Tekoporã programme

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2008
    The International Poverty Centre (IPC) has recently undertaken an impact evaluation of the pilot of Tekoporã, a Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme in Paraguay. Previously, IPC analysed the logical framework of this programme and its implementation challenges, and assessed its targeting mechanisms.
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    Assessing Honduras’ CCT programme PRAF, Programa de Asignación Familiar: the expected and unexpected realities

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2008
    Over the past ten years there has been an increase in the use of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes in Latin America. One initiative in Honduras, the PRAF (Programa de Asignación Familiar or Family Allowance Programme), has been running for eighteen years.
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    The impact of social cash transfers on children

    Malawi Social Cash Transfer Pilot Scheme, 2007
    This paper analyses the degree to which social cash transfer schemes that do not explicitly target HIV and AIDS affected persons or households reach HIV and AIDS affected households. By comparing different schemes in Zambia, Malawi and South Africa, the study identifies the main factors that determine both the share of HIV and AIDS affected households reached, and the impact achieved.
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    Social security in other countries: worldwide social security agencies

    Social Security Online, 2008
    Directory of websites of social security agencies and organisations around the world. Compiled by Social Security Online (USA).
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    Vulnerability and social protection in Malawi

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    Vulnerability appears to be rising for many Malawians, whose exposure to livelihood shocks is increasing while their ability to cope is decreasing.
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    Famine in Malawi: causes and consequences

    Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2007
    Reports of a devastating famine in Malawi first surfaced as rumors whispered in rural areas in the country around October 2001. However, little was done by way of action, despite warnings from expert civil society groups.
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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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