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  The Global Economic Crisis and Developing Countries

  Oxfam, 2010

  Oxfam’s research on the global economic crisis looks at 12 countries, an is combined in this report with the findings of studies by a range of universities, think tanks, and international organisations.
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  Impacts of climate change on livelihoods: what are the implications for social protection?

  Climate and Disaster Governance Programme, 2009

  This paper explores how rural agricultural livelihoods may be affected by changes in climate. Exploring Ethiopian case studies, the author uses a combined Transformative Social Protection and Household Economy Approach to determine how social protection can contribute to adaptation plans - specifically for the poor and most vulnerable - in the context of a changing climate.
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  Climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction and social protection: complementary roles in agriculture and rural growth?

  Centre for Social Protection, 2009

  Reliance on subsistence agriculture means that the impact of stresses and shocks, such as droughts or floods, are immediately felt by the rural poor. This working paper is warning that with climate change, the magnitude and frequency of stresses and shocks that affect agriculture are increasing.
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  Resilience of rural communities to climatic accidents: a need to scale up socio-environmental safety nets (Madagascar, Haiti)

  EASYPol, 2009

  Lack of resilience to climatic accidents seems to be one of the main reasons for the transformation of climatic accidents into environmental, economic and social disasters for rural communities. Focusing particularly on Madagascar and Haiti, the recommendations in this policy brief target ways to increase and improve the coverage and impact of existing risk management tools, as well as mak
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  Ageing, human rights and public policies

  CEPAL - ECLAC Database, 2010

  This book examines the ageing phenomenon in Latin American countries from the demographic perspectives, and the guaranteeing of human rights in old-age. The book catches two notable facts about the region: population is ageing faster in the region than it did historically in the developed countries; and poor coverage and quality of social protection systems are dominating.
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  China’s rapidly aging population: program and policy implications

  Population Reference Bureau, 2010

  The proportion of elderly citizens in China will continue to grow very quickly, as a combination of China’s one-child policy and low mortality takes effect, increasing the stress on an already troubled health care system. Only 40 percent of elderly males and just 13 percent of elderly females receive any kind of support from a pension:
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  Fertility impact of social transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa – what about pensions?

  Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2010

  Whilst the impact on fertility of child-related cash transfer in developing countries is fiercely debated, the author of this paper argues that little attention is paid to the fertility impact of old-age cash transfers.
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  The impact of the financial crisis on defined benefit plans and the need for counter-cyclical funding regulations

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2010

  This paper discusses the impact of the crisis on DB pension schemes and the temporary responses taken by regulators to help ease financially strained plan sponsors. It also presents suggestions to governments and policy-makers for making funding regulations more counter-cyclical in nature, in order to strengthen the security of DB benefits and help to maintain future DB plans.
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  Achieving income security in old age for all Tanzanians: a study into the feasibility of a universal social pension

  HelpAge International, 2010

  In Tanzania, poverty rates amongst households containing an older person are 22.4 per cent higher than the national poverty rate.  In the past, security in old age was provided through a range of social protection mechanisms based on the extended family and community structures, but these traditional mechanisms are increasingly unable to cope.
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  Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction and Social Protection

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009

  This paper outlines linkages between climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction (DRR) and social protection.

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