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  Asset-based approaches to poverty reduction in a globalized context: an introduction to asset accumulation policy and summary of workshop findings

  Brookings Institution, 2006

  This working paper provides a brief introduction to asset-based approaches to poverty reduction in a globalised context.
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  Extending social assistance in China: lessons from the Minimum Living Standard Scheme

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2006

  This report details China's urban Minimum Living Standard Scheme (MLSS). This is a social assistance programme initially focused on the chronically poor, but later extended to the long-term unemployed.
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  Where is education in the conditional cash transfers of education?

  UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2006

  This paper examines the educational effects of conditional cash transfers (CCT) for education. The study finds that based on the evidence reviewed in this paper, there is very limited support for the conclusion that CCTs are effective educational instruments, in particular with regards to their ability to increase learning.
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  Viet Nam: toward universal social protection: private mechanisms to reach the poor

  Making markets work better for the poor, 2005

  In Vietnam, migration and other pressures of economic development threaten traditional systems of social protection. Private mechanisms have the infrastructure, access to information and knowledge to provide effective social protection, however they tend not to reach the most vulnerable groups.
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  Multiple dimensions of social assistance: the case of Peru's 'Glass of Milk' programme

  ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2006

  Research into the material effects of social assistance programmes is important but it can be misleading if it fails to capture the true value of such programmes to intended beneficiaries and other stakeholders. This paper considers contemporary policy debates about social protection from a wellbeing perspective through a case study of the 'Glass of Milk' food distribution programme in Peru.
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  Education access and retention for educationally marginalised children: innovations in social protection

  Mobile Task Team on the Impact of HIV/AIDS on Education, 2005

  This report looks at the effectiveness of social protection programmes for educationally marginalised children (EMC) in Eastern and Southern Africa.
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  Using social transfers to scale up equitable access to education and health services

  Department for International Development, UK, 2006

  This paper focuses on the impact of one form of demand-side policy option – social transfers, particularly cash transfers and vouchers - on access to health and education services by the extreme poor.
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  PROGRESA and its impacts on the welfare of rural households in Mexico

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005

  In early 1998, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) was asked to assist the PROGRESA administration to "determine if PROGRESA is functioning in practice as it is intended to by design".
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  A new approach to social assistance: Latin America’s experience with conditional cash transfer programs

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper reviews the experience of the Latin America and Caribbean region in introducing conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes which provide money to poor families conditional upon investments in human capital, usually sending children to school and/or bringing them to health centers on a regular basis.
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  Delivery mechanisms of cash transfer programs to the poor in Bangladesh

  World Bank, 2005

  This paper examines the practical issues and financial costs of delivering cash benefits from source to recipients. An analysis of cost-effective mechanisms for this purpose is also presented.The study analyses three alternative delivery methods used in Bangladesh. Issues concerning targeting and the leakage of funds is also examined.

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