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  Tamil Nadu’s midday meal scheme where assumed benefits score over hard data

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2004

  This paper examines Tamil Nadu's noon nutritious meal scheme, India's largest in terms of the number of beneficiaries covered.
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  Conditional cash transfers, schooling and child labor: micro-simulating Bolsa Escola

  Departamento de Economia, Pontificía Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2003

  Brazil's Bolsa Escola scheme was established in 2001 and provides a means-tested cash transfer to poor households, on the condition that children in the household attend school.
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  Building budgets from below

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2004

  This paper investigates the degrees of freedom available to women (elected to self-government) to determine local and macro fiscal policies.
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  Gender, education and child labour in Egypt

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2004

  This study analyses existing literature on the education and gender aspects of child labour. It explores the linkages between child labour, gender and education and highlights areas for further research and programme/policy interventions.The paper looks at the causes of child labour, its prevalence and distribution in Egypt.
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  Pathways out of poverty in western Kenya and the role of livestock

  Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative, 2004

  This paper is based on a study exploring households' pathways into, and out of, poverty, with poverty defined from the communities' own perspective.
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  The impact of cash transfers on child labor and school attendance in Brazil

  Instituto de Estudos do Trabalho e Sociedade, Brazil, 2003

  Brazil’s Bolsa Escola schemes involve paying cash grants to poor parents on the condition that their children attend school.
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  Coping with hunger and poverty in Ethiopia

  ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2004

  This paper is an examination of how people in Ethiopia are faring, twenty years after a major famine. The paper is comprised of interviews with individuals in different communities, interwoven with the authors’ conclusions and narrative.
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  Transformative social protection

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  This paper, published by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), discusses the concept of social protection and the ways in which social protection policy has worked in practice, drawing on examples from Uganda.It claims that social protection has been popularly perceived as “social welfare programmes for poor countries”, consisting of costly targeted transfers to economically inac
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  Income risk and welfare status of rural households in Nigeria: Ekiti state as a test case

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This paper examines the impact of income risk on the level of well-being of rural households in Nigeria. Income risk is defined as the risks associated with variability in income; well-being is defined in terms of the level of utility reached by a given individual. This level is a function of goods and services that the individual consumes.
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  Livelihoods (un)employment and social safety nets: reflections from recent studies in KwaZulu-Natal

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This paper considers some methodological and substantive issues in the fields of livelihoods, unemployment and social safety nets in South Africa. This report focuses on the extent to which work and employment are reported in different types of surveys.

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