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  Make childhood poverty history

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  About 600 million children worldwide are growing up in absolute poverty. Over ten million children under five years of age die every year. Nearly one billion children will be growing up with impaired mental development by 2020.
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  Cash transfers can reduce childhood poverty

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Forty percent of children in developing countries struggle to survive on less than one US dollar a day, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Childhood poverty often leads to long term vulnerability. It is associated with lower educational attainment and schooling which affects future earning potential and well-being.
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  Poverty targeting in Asia: country experience of India

  ADB Institute, 2004

  This paper addresses two broad questions related to poverty alleviation in India: (1) how much in aggregate does the government spend on poverty targeted programmes? and, (2) how effective have these programs been in targeting the poor and in alleviating poverty?
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  A quantitative assessment of social exclusion in Pakistan

  Oxford Policy Management, 2005

  This briefing note aims to quantify the relationship between social exclusion and poverty in Pakistan. It offers a quantitative description and analysis of social exclusion in Pakistan through a literature review of all forms of exclusion and the analysis of datasets with information on socially excluded groups.
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  Insurance products provided by insurance companies to the disadvantaged groups in India

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  This study identifies and documents the various insurance products provided by insurance companies to the disadvantaged groups in India. It is designed to help development professional to play a more efficient role in the promotion of new insurance services and thus contributing to the extension of social protection to the excluded groups.
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  The impact of a conditional education subsidy on school enrolment in Colombia

  Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, 2005

  This study estimates the short-term impact on school enrolment of a large welfare programme in Colombia, Familias en Acción. The programme offers a monthly subsidy to eligible mothers conditional on their child(ren) attending school.The study finds that the programme has been effective at increasing enrolment, particularly amongst 14- to 17-year-olds, in both urban and rural areas.
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  The use of operations research as a tool for monitoring and managing food-assisted maternal/child health and nutrition (MHCN) programs: an example from Haiti

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005

  This report documents research undertaken to assess the effectiveness of World Vision’s (WV) food assisted maternal and child health and nutrition (MCHN) programme in the Central Plateau region of Haiti.
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  On assessing pro-poorness of government programmes: international comparisons

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2005

  This paper proposes a new "Pro-Poor Policy (PPP)" index, which measures the pro-poorness of government programmes, as well as basic service delivery in education, health and infrastructure.
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  Assessment of the world food security situation

  Committee on World Food Security, FAO, 2005

  Prepared for the Committee on Global Food Security, this 2005 annual FAO assessment document pays special attention to coping with key shocks to food security and the implications for preparedness, responses and mitigation efforts.In particular the report focuses on what it highlights as the main causes of food insecurity: conflicts, natural disasters, plant and animal pests and diseases, HIV/A
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  Community-managed targeting and distribution of food aid: a review of the experience of Save the Children UK in sub-Saharan Africa

  Save the Children Fund, 2004

  This paper compares and evaluates how the Community-Managed Targeting and Distribution (CMTD) has been applied in Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Malawi.The Tanzania programme was designed to protect livelihoods in populations facing recurring adverse seasons; the Malawi programme aimed to prevent nutritional deterioration in what was perceived to be a rapidly worsening food security crisis; and the Zim

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