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  Looking at social protection through a livelihoods lens

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006

  This issue of In Focus is a collection of briefing notes that explore and contribute to the thinking and practice of social protection. These briefs help in understanding social protection; building the evidence base; understanding what is happening where; and considering future directions for social protection.
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  Population ageing in Malawi: understanding challenges, responding to opportunities: proceedings of the meeting held in Lilongwe, Malawi on 28-29 November 2007

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2008

  This report summarises the themes that emerged as priorities as a result of papers presented at a joint BSF (Bingu Silvergrey Foundation for the Elderly) / FAO meeting on population ageing issues in Malawi: Papers presented covered:
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  Salt, soap and shoes for school, evaluation report. The impact of pensions on the lives of older people and grandchildren in the KwaWazee project in Tanzania’s Kagera region

  Kwa Wazee, 2008

  Cash transfers have become an increasingly popular way of providing social protection in low-income African countries. This study aims to find out more about the impact of social pensions for older people and the combination with child benefits in older people headed households, and what can be learnt from the experiences with this approach in the Kwa Wazee project in Tanzania.
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  Towards a basic income grant for all: Basic Income Grant pilot project assessment report, September 2008

  BIG coalition namibia, 2008

  Namibia has one of the highest levels of income inequality in the world, a by-product of colonialism, apartheid and recent economic policies. To address inequality, the Namibian Government’s Namibian Tax Consortium (NAMTAX) identified the need for a universal grant in the form of a Basic Income Grant (BIG), to be financed out of a progressive expenditure tax on non-poor people, in 2002.
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  Cash transfers and child labour: an intriguing relationship

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2008

  Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes provide cash to poor households. In return, the households are expected to meet the conditionalities attached to schooling, among others. Several evaluations have found positive impacts on primary school attendance. This one page article considers how CCT programmes have impacted on Child Labour.
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  Do cash transfers enable the very poor to save?

  Oxford Policy Management, 2008

  Experiences from around show that building poor people’s capacities to accumulate assets for the long term is central to poverty reduction. In this process, household savings play a particularly significant role. Contrary to what one might assume, evidence increasingly points to the fact that poor people are able to and do save.
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  'We are all poor here’: economic difference, social divisiveness, and targeting cash transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa

  University of Sussex, UK, 2008

  Although most social transfer schemes tend to confront targeting difficulties, this poses a particular challenge in poor Sub-Saharan African countries where very little distinguishes the economic conditions of the bottom 50-60 percent of the population, more so in rural areas. While this has been the experience for several programmes, the evidence is as yet of an anecdotal nature.
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  Elder poverty in an ageing world: conditions of social vulnerability and low income for women in rich and middle‐income nations

  Luxembourg Income Study, 2008

  In most rich countries, poverty among younger pensioners (under age 70) is no longer a major policy problem, but women typically constitute two-thirds to three-quarters or more of the elderly poor in rich countries. Poverty in rich nations is especially a problem among women aged 75 and older who live alone.
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  REBA case study brief

  Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2008

  Cash transfers are increasingly being used to address hunger and vulnerability in Sub Saharan Africa – often as an alternative to food aid. Such interventions have been informed by different models of social protection.
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  Is there a rationale for conditional cash transfers for children in South Africa?

  School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2008

  This paper assesses the rationale behind Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) in South Africa. It looks at evidence of the reach and impact of major CCT programmes, particularly in Latin America, and the Child Support Grant (CSG) in South Africa.

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