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  Ghana LEAP programme increases schooling outcomes

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2015

  There is a growing body of literature analysing the impacts of social cash transfer programmes (SCT) on schooling. This brief summarizes findings from the impact evaluation of the Ghana Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme on schooling outcomes overall and for various subgroups: by sex, age group and cognitive ability. 
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  The State of Food and Agriculture: social protection and agriculture: breaking the cycle of rural poverty

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2015

  This edition of The State of Food and Agriculture 2015 reviews the effectiveness of social protection interventions in reducing poverty, raising food consumption, relieving household food insecurity and hunger, and promoting longer-term improvements in nutrition. It is argued that social protection programmes are effective at reducing poverty and hunger.
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  Cash for women's empowerment? A mixed-methods evaluation of the government of Zambia's Child Grant Programme

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2016

  Social cash transfer programmes in developing countries are often claimed to benefit the empowerment of women, despite a lack of clear evidence supporting this outcome.
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  Engendering social security and protection: challenges for making social security and protection gender equitable

  Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2011

  The on-going negative impacts of the 2007/2008 global economic crisis has underlined the need for, and the role of social protection.
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  Social Protection Floors and gender equality: a brief overview

  International Labour Organization, 2013

  This paper examines some of the linkages between gender inequality and social protection, recognising that effective and equitable access to social protection is a key tool for reducing poverty and inequality. The paper identifies various gender-specific vulnerabilities and inequalities in relation to women’s access to social protection.
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  Work and welfare: revisiting the linkages from a gender perspective

  Political and Social Economy of Care (UNRISD), 2012

  This paper takes a gender perspective to examine the relationship between employment and social policy. It challenges key assumptions about the translation of patterns of growth into welfare outcomes that are made in most poverty- and inequality-reduction approaches.
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  Economic crisis and women's work: exploring progressive strategies in a rapidly changing global environment

  UN Women, 2013

  This report examines the gendered impacts of on-going global financial and economic crises in the labour market.
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  Making women’s work visible: finance for rural women

  Women's World Banking, 2014

  Globally more than one billion women have no interaction with a bank or financial service provider. Rural women face unique challenges and limitations. They have, on average, lower levels of literacy and education than men, and generally have less freedom within households and communities.
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  Poverty and access to microfinance with gender dimension

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2003

  Although admittedly still small relative to the size of the entire domestic financial market, the Philippine microfinance market has been developing quite rapidly in the last few years.
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  Human resource development and poverty in the Philippines

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2005

  In the last twenty years, the Philippines has gained a good progress in poverty reduction. However, compared to other countries in the region, the Philippines is still behind. In the early years of the 21st century, more than a third of the Philippine population lives below the poverty line. With landless status, the poor depended largely on labour with its embedded educational capital.

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