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  Child poverty, child socio-economic rights and Budget 2003 - The ‘right thing’ or a small step in the ‘right direction’?

  Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2003

  This budget brief assesses the extent to which the 2003 South African Budget addresses widespread child poverty and the delivery of children's socio-economic rights.
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  Food aid and informal insurance

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2003

  This paper looks into the extent to which food aid helps to smooth consumption by reducing the impact of negative shocks, taking into account informal risk-sharing arrangements.The paper asks two questions:what determines the allocation rule of food aid in Ethiopia?
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  Famine in Ethiopia: is food aid the answer?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  As the world geared up to provide fourteen million Ethiopians with the food aid needed to guarantee their survival, the question remains – why is there still such widespread hunger in Ethiopia? Have donors and the Ethiopian Government failed to address the root causes of the country’s perennial food insecurity?
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  Water, livelihoods and resettlement of displaced people: lessons from Eritrea

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  In the past decade, the Gash-Barka region in Eritrea’s western lowlands on the borders of Sudan and Ethiopia has become a site of resettlement for refugees returning from Sudan and those displaced by border clashes with Ethiopia. What impact has their arrival had on an already fragile natural resource base? What lessons can be applied to other settlement schemes for displaced people?
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  Understanding linkages between urban poverty, livelihoods and natural resources

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  How are the conditions in which the urban poor live affected by changes in rural economies? How do policies targeted at rural populations indirectly affect urbanites? Can pro-poor urban policies be developed which take into account the importance of natural resources to the urban poor?
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  Chronic poverty in India: lessons from recent research

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2003

  This paper is based on a synthesis of recent literature on poverty in India. It argues that within the context of urban poverty in India, spatial analysis does not feature prominently enough within the recent livelihoods work.
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  Food security and emergencies

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 2003

  This paper addresses the continuing issue of food insecurity in Ethiopia.
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  Non-contributory pensions and poverty prevention: a comparative study of Brazil and South Africa

  HelpAge International, 2003

  Pensions play a key role in old age support systems, but research and debate on pension policy has so far focused on contributory pension programmes.
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  Rights talk and rights practice: challenges for Southern Africa

  Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003

  This research in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe looks at the practice of rights claiming on the ground, in the context of 'legal pluralism' and complex, politicised institutional settings. In the southern African context rights are formulated and claimed in a very unlevel playing field and are highly contested.
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  There is more to a decent income in lengthening old age than individual savings: a discussion of income security for old age in Singapore and Malaysia

  International Social Security Association, 2003

  This paper compares the approaches to income provision for old age taken by both Singapore and Malaysia.Findings:individual savings alone do not represent the best option for income security into old ageincreased access to savings prior to retirement, through dedicated accounts and specified schemes, lessens the ability of provident funds to meet their primary objective, namely secu

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