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    Assessing long-term impacts of conditional cash transfers on children and young adults in rural Nicaragua

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2014
    Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes, which offer families cash grants conditional on attendance at school or preventive health visits, have expanded rapidly over the past decade.
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    Topic Guide on Social Exclusion

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2012
    This GSDRC Topic Guide aims to introduce some of the best literature on the definitions, understandings, causes, and impact of social exclusion, as well as the ways in which exclusion can be measured and addressed by governments, civil society actors and international organisations.
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    Topic Guide on Social Protection

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2012
    This GSDRC Topic Guide provides a reference for policymakers and practitioners involved in social protection.
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    Social protection: Topic guide

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2015
    This guide provides an overview of social protection concepts, approaches, issues, debates and the evidence. It primarily focuses on longer-term developmental social protection, rather than humanitarian responses, and on low-income countries, drawing on other contexts where appropriate.
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    The impact of conflict on poverty

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2014
    This Helpdesk Report responds to the following query: Provide an overview of the latest evidence since 2010 on the impact of conflict on poverty.
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    Slum upgrading strategies involving physical environment and infrastructure interventions and their effects on health and socio-economic outcomes

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2013
    The purpose of this systematic review was to explore the effects of slum upgrading strategies involving physical environment and infrastructure interventions on the health, quality of life and socio-economic wellbeing of urban slum dwellers in low and middle income countries (LMIC).
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    Financing better health care for all

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2009
    Poor people’s access to good health care is limited because they cannot afford it and often live far from quality services. There is evidence that poor people will pay to use health services if the quality is good. Cash transfers have also been highly successful in encouraging women to use health care, and contracting-out can help to improve coverage.
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    Public works: an effective safety net for the poor?

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2009
    Rigorous evaluations of the impacts of public works programmes in low and middle income countries are limited. Programmes can be successful in terms of targeting poor people, as well as generating short-term employment and income gains for participants. However, there is less evidence in terms of sustainable income gains and the benefits to poor people from the assets created.
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    Shelter from the storm: upgrading housing infrastructure in Latin American slums

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2013
    Adequate housing, along with food and clothing, is considered by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a basic requirement for achieving a minimum living standard. Yet, inadequate housing, a primary characteristic of slum dwellers, is a problem facing 45 per cent of the global urban population.
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    A randomized evaluation of the effects of an agricultural insurance program on rural households’ behavior: evidence from China

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2014
    The provision of weather insurance is a potential way of shielding farmers from weather related shocks and reducing poverty. However, the use of weather insurance is not widespread in many countries. In China, even with a government subsidy of 70 per cent, the take-up of weather insurance is quite low.

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