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  Living on the boundary: institutional influences on the livelihoods of the extreme poor

  Proshika, 2003

  This study, from Proshika, seeks to understand the livelihood conditions of the many different extremely poor people living in Bangladesh by analyzing their livelihood constraints and opportunities.
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  Incidence analysis of public support to the private education sector in Côte d’Ivoire

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper analyses the poverty impact of public subsidisation of private schools in Côte d’Ivoire. It attempts to assess how efficiently public spending is targeted to the poor by looking at who benefits from public expenditure on education in different income groups.
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  Improving livelihoods for the poor: the role of literacy

  Department for International Development, UK, 2002

  This briefing paper examines the way in which literacy features in different sectoral programmes supported by DFID. The brief presents the key issues that have emerged as different parts of DFID have considered the ways in which literacy and poverty interrelate.
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  Evaluating targeted cash transfer programs: a general equilibrium framework with an application to Mexico

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This report focuses on the indirect and direct effects of transfer programmes.
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  Do children act as old age security in rural India?: evidence from an analysis of elderly living arrangements

  Cardiff Business School, Economics Section, 2004

  This paper examines the pattern of living arrangements among male and female elderly family members in India, using National Sample Survey data and derives implications for children as old age security in rural India. The burden of caring for the elderly is traditionally borne by the immediate family, and most often by the sons.
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  Microfinance institutions in Nigeria: policy, practice and potentials

  Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four, 2004

  This study examines the outreach performance of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Nigeria, based on a survey of ten major MFIs.
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  The social and economic impact of South Africa’s social security system

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This study evaluates the social and economic impacts of South Africa's State Old Age Pensions (SOAP), Disability Grants (DG), Child Support Grants (CSG), Care Dependency Grants (CDG), Foster Care Grants (FCG) and Grants-in-Aid (GIA).
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  Equity in educational expenditures: can government subsidies help?

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper examines government education subsidy schemes in Zambia. It asks the following questions:do resources allocated by the central authority actually reach intended recipients?
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  Poverty alleviation through geographic targeting: how much does disaggregation help?

  World Bank, 2004

  Using recently completed poverty maps for Cambodia, Ecuador, and Madagascar, the authors simulate the impact on poverty of transferring an exogenously given budget to geographically defined subgroups of the population according to their relative poverty status.The authors findings include:that there are large gains to be achieved from targeting smaller administrative units, such as dist
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  Internal migration and the development nexus: the case of Bangladesh

  Eldis Document Store, 2003

  This paper reviews the relationships between migration and development in Bangladesh, focussing on conditions and entitlements in the labour market and the consequences of migration, including remittances and their effects on poverty and inequality.

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