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    Transforming research and policy

    Centre for Social Protection, 2012
    This report provides a concise picture of the Centre for Social Protection’s approach, key areas of work and accomplishments over the last six years. It aims to inform current and potential partners and stakeholders about who CSP are and how they work. The Centre for Social Protection (CSP) is a global hub for research, policy analysis, and capacity building in social protection.
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    Shocks and Social Protection in the Horn of Africa: Analysis from the Productive Safety Net Programme in Ethiopia

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012
    Using panel data from the Ethiopian Productive Safety Net Program, this paper explores the degree to which this social protection programme has been successful in protecting its beneficiaries against the various shocks that have affected the Horn of Africa in the recent past.
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    Social Protection: Accelerating the MDGs with Equity

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2010
    Achieving the Millennium Development Goals will need accelerated interventions in key areas. This Brief illustrates how social protection programmes can help to accelerate progress to the MDGs by facilitating access to essential services and decent living standards.
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    Poverty Target Programs for The Elderly In India with Special Reference to National Old Age Pension Scheme, 1995

    Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2012
    Formal old age care is a supplement to informal old age care and not its substitute, and it is increasingly being felt that the two forms of care should be woven together. This paper looks into various aspects of the old age pension debate and related policies in India.
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    Swaziland old age grant impact assessment

    HelpAge International, 2010
    Cash transfers are increasingly seen as a popular form of social protection, representing a solution to reducing absolute poverty and food insecurity for vulnerable groups. The Swaziland Old Age Grant (OAG) was introduced in 2005 as a universal grant to all Swazi citizens over 60 years of age, many of whom are caring for orphaned children in their households.
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    Ageing, Human Rights and Public Policies

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2010
    Two aspects of ageing of the population in Latin America and the Caribbean are of particular concern. One is that the population is ageing faster in the region than it did historically in developed countries.
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    Mexico’s Progresa-Oportunidades and the emergence of social assistance in Latin America

    Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2010
    This paper provides an overview of the political and economic context under which Mexico’s Progresa-Oportunidades was introduced to prelude the emergence of social assistance in Latin America. The paper identifies four distinctive features of the programme that were revolutionary in their own right.
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    Impacts of social protection programmes in Ethiopia on child work and education

    Young Lives, 2008
    Social protection measures are becoming an increasingly important policy tool for African governments. These measures have important potential for reducing poverty and positive impacts on child well-being.
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    Social Protection and Children: A Synthesis of Evidence from Young Lives Longitudinal Research in Ethiopia, India and Peru

    Young Lives, 2010
    This paper sets out the key findings from Young Lives research into the ways that major social protection (SP) policies are impacting on children, their families and communities in Ethiopia, India and Peru. Most research and policy debate focuses on effects of SP schemes on households, with children assumed to be passive beneficiaries of programmes to reduce vulnerability.
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    The Impact of Social Protection on Children

    Young Lives, 2010
    Social protection policies in developing countries are an increasingly widespread method for tackling chronic poverty and vulnerability and helping families manage risk. Particular schemes often provide cash, paid work or food to poor people. Labour market protections and the linkages between cash transfers and other publicservices are also important.

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