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  Can low income countries afford basic social protection?: first results of a modelling exercise

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  This report presents the methodology and the results of a modelling exercise that demonstrates that basic social protection benefits are not out of reach for low-income countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, even though some international assistance would be necessary for a transitory period.
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  Minimum Income for School Attendance (MISA) initiative: achieving international development goals in African least developed countries

  International Labour Organization, 2001

  In some Latin American countries, an innovative approach has been introduced to reduce poverty, to enhance the human capital of the poor and to combat child labour. The approach involves providing a minimum income to the poorest and most vulnerable families, conditional on regular school attendance by all their children of school going age.
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  The role of cash transfers in tackling childhood poverty

  Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004

  This briefing paper focuses on the contribution one main social protection instrument - child-oriented cash transfers - can make to reducing childhood poverty and vulnerability.The paper argues that child-oriented cash transfers and wider social protection strategies can play an important role in reaching various Millennium Development Goals, including those on health, education, nutrition and
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  Targeting of transfers in developing countries: review of lessons and experience

  World Bank, 2004

  This book provides a general review of experiences and lessons learned with methods used to target interventions in developing countries.
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  Is PROGRESA working? Summary of the results of an evaluation by IFPRI

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001

  This document summarises an evaluation of the impact of PROGRESA on three poverty reduction focus areas: improving school enrolment, improving health and nutrition outcomes, and increasing household consumption for poor rural families.The findings suggest that PROGRESA’s combination of education, health, and nutrition interventions into one integrated package has a significant impact on the wel
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  Private school vouchers in Colombia

  John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2005

  This paper seeks to review the Plan de Ampliación de Cobertura de la Educación Secundaria (PACES) – a public-private partnership providing secondary school vouchers through a lottery system for entry into private schools aimed at the poorest third of the population.
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  Reviewing ten years of the School Nutrition Programme

  Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2005

  The South African School Nutrition Programme was established in 1994 to address the food needs of impoverished school children. However, researchers are divided about the policy value of the school nutrition programme, with one group wishing to expand the programme whilst the other advocates limiting its scope.
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  The equality predicament: report on the world social situation 2005

  UN, 2005

  This report traces the trends and patterns in economic and non-economic aspects of inequality and examines their causes and consequences across and within regions and countries.
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  School feeding programs: why they should be scaled up now

  United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2004

  This brief discusses the effectiveness of school feeding programmes, how they address constraints to education, and how they can be scaled up.The paper argues that in-school feeding reduces short-term hunger; they provide micronutrient-fortified meals early in the school day; food can be used in several ways to address access issues; it can address health and nutrition needs of school-age child
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  Medium-term effects of the Oportunidades program package, including nutrition, on education of rural children age 0-8 in 1997

  Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica Mexico (National Institute of Public Health), 2005

  This paper provides estimates of the medium-term impacts of the Oportunidades programme in rural Mexico on education for children aged 0 to 8 in 1997 just prior to the initial intervention, and those aged 6 to 14 in the 2003 Rural Evaluation Survey.The main findings include: the age group 3 to 5 in 1997 most likely did not benefit from the early nutritional intervention and also by 2003

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