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    Livelihoods and conflict

    US Agency for International Development, 2005
    This "toolkit" explains the connections between livelihood and conflict and aims to provide USAID missions with access to concrete, practical program options, lessons learned, and information about potential partners, mechanisms and monitoring and evaluation tools for implementing more effective conflict programmes. The document concentrates on how violent conflict can affect individu
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    A new pension settlement for the Twenty-First Century - the second report of the Pensions Commission

    Pensions Commission, 2005
    The Second Report of the UK Pensions Commission sets out the its conclusions on the likely evolution of the UK pension system if policy is unchanged, and its recommendations for a new policy direction.The Commission has concluded that:the current system of private funded pensions combined with the current state system will deliver increasingly inadequate and unequal resultsthe state
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    Working with local institutions to support sustainable livelihoods

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003
    This paper looks at the and policy implications of research conducted on local institution - rural household linkages.
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    Social security pensionable age in OECD countries: 1949-2035

    American Association of Retired Persons International Section, 2005
    This Issue Paper examines the pensionable or early retirement age policy of social security programs in 23 countries over the years 1949-2035. This paper considers as a group 23 high-income Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. .
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    Integrating adolescent livelihood activities within a reproductive health programme for urban slum dwellers in India

    Population Council, USA, 2005
    This paper describes a pilot livelihood activities and reproductive health intervention and its impact aimed at adolescent girls aged 14-19 living in urban slums in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. The project was initiated based on the recognition of the relative disadvantage of adolescent girls and in an effort to build the evidence base for adolescent livelihoods programmes.
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    At all costs?: applying the means test for the Child Support Grant

    Children's Institute, University of Cape Town, 2005
    This paper estimates the cost of the means test for the Child Support Grant (CSG) in South Africa to Government and to applicants.The main findings include: the mean cost to the government (DSD and SAPS) of applying the means test is estimated at R165 020 million under the current regulationsthe average cost to CSG applicants, in complying with the requirements of the means test, is
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    Building assets for safe, productive lives: a report on a workshop on adolescent girls' livelihoods

    Population Council, USA, 2005
    This report summarises the proceedings of a workshop on adolescent girls’ livelihoods that brought together stakeholders from all over the globe to interpret the word "livelihoods" in light of the needs of adolescents, and to review recent findings from field-based interventions and the research methods necessary to bring to light the distinctive adolescent experience.The report begins by revie
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    International migration and livelihoods in southeast Nigeria

    Global Commission on International Migration, 2005
    This study identifies and examines factors leading to international migration from Nigeria, looks at the consequences on rural livelihoods in selected states in the country as well exploring the implications of international migration in the context of its perceived impacts on the Nigerian economy as a whole.Key findings from the study include:there is a very high degree of rural-urban
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    Building human capital in an aging Mexico

    Global Aging Initiative Program, 2005
    United Nations' figures project that in 2050 one in five Mexicans will be aged over 65 and there will be equal numbers of children and elderly.
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    Social transfers and chronic poverty: emerging evidence and the challenge ahead

    Department for International Development, UK, 2005
    Social transfers may offer an important option to tackle inequality and ensure that the benefits of growth reach those living in chronic poverty.

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