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The pilot social cash transfer scheme: Kalomo District, Zambia
Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2005This working paper, published by the UK Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC), reviews and analyses the Kalomo Pilot Social Cash Transfer Scheme in Zambia. The scheme targeted households suffering critical levels of food poverty and with high dependency ratios (a high number of children or elderly members for each working-age adult in the household).DocumentVouchers, inequalities and the Chilean experience
National Center for the Study of Privatisation in Education, USA, 2004This paper looks at how the structure of a specific voucher scheme affects the distribution of the scheme. This article examines Chile’s twenty years of experience with a flat voucher from the perspective of social inequality.It argues that when vouchers deliver the same resources to children from different socioeconomic backgrounds, there is a design problem that needs to be addressed.DocumentEconomic policies - how can they contribute to child wellbeing?
Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004This briefing reviews the impacts of economic policies on child wellbeing.DocumentThe impact of conditional cash transfers on human development outcomes: a review of evidence from PROGRESA in Mexico and some implications for policy debates in South and Southern Africa
Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005This paper reflects on assessments of Mexico's Conditional Cash Transfer scheme (called PROGRESA) and draws comparisons with South Africa's Child Support Grant (CSG).DocumentCommunity based targeting mechanisms for social safety nets
World Bank, 2001This paper reviews case studies and theory on community involvement in beneficiary selection and benefit delivery for social safety nets. It highlights four key issues: communities vary in their ability to mobilize information and implement effective monitoring systems, and this will influence whether community based targeting leads to cost saving advantages or just opens up more opportDocumentUrban poverty, childhood poverty and social protection in China: critical issues
Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004This paper examines the problem of urban poverty in China, particularly in relation to its impact on disadvantaged children, including children of migrants and street children.DocumentSense in sociability? Social exclustion and persistent poverty in South Africa
BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004This paper queries the ability of the South African poor to use social mechanisms of accessing capital as an exit route out of poverty.DocumentA lecture on the political economy of targeted safety nets
World Bank, 2005This paper sheds light on the importance of political support towards designing safety net policies. In drawing on the crisis safety net programs in Indonesia from 1998 to 2000, the author reviews 5 major issues namely, models of electoral politics, safety ropes vs.DocumentSchool meals, educational achievement and school competition: evidence from a randomized evaluation
World Bank Research, 2004This paper examines the effects of subsidised school meals on preschool participation, educational achievement, and school finance in Kenya.Findings from the study include:the meals programme led to higher curriculum test scores, but only in schools where the teacher was relatively experienced prior to the programmethe school meals displaced teaching time and led to larger class sizDocumentSustainable livelihoods and climate change adaptation: a review of phase one activities for the project on climate change, vulnerable communities and adaptation
Climate Change, International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2004This paper reports on the first phase of a project examining issues of sustainable livelihoods and climate change adaptation.Pages