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  Health infrastructure and child health in rural Peru

  2004

  This paper examines the effect of expanding health infrastructure on child nutrition in rural Peru.
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  The impact of inequality in Latin America

  Poverty Research Unit, Sussex, 2004

  This paper argues that development policies in Latin America (and in other developing regions) should focus not only on eliminating poverty and deprivation but also on preventing and reducing economic, social and political inequalities.
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  Impacts of Community Health Insurance Schemes on Health Care Provision in Rural Tanzania

  Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung, Bonn, 2004

  This study examines community health funds (CHF) in Tanzania to evaluate the role of community health funds in lowering the barriers to access health care. The authors found that protection by the community schemes drastically increases participants’ demand for health care.
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  Roma in an expanding Europe: breaking the poverty cycle

  World Bank, 2003

  This report is based on quantitative analyses of household surveys and qualitative, sociological case studies documenting the experiences of Roma communities in Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Slovakia.
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  Social protection for the poor: lessons learnt from recent international experience

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002

  This paper synthesises current thinking and evidence on a number of issues around the design and impact of social protection programmes, including: the case for and against targeting resource transfers;alternative approaches to targeting;what form resource transfers should take (cash, food, agricultural inputs);the 'crowding out' debate;cost-efficiency of transfer programme
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  Enhancing economic security in transition: pluralism in service delivery

  International Labour Organization, 2003

  This paper argues that economic reform has led to fundamental challenges to the provision of social welfare in China.
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  How are services delivered to the people in Malawi

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  The document covers attitudes towards the service delivery of education, health, infrastructure, agricultural extension and security in Malawi.
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  Chronic poverty and remote rural areas

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2002

  Successive policy approaches have failed to relieve long-term poverty among people living in remote rural areas (RRAs). This working paper from the Chronic Poverty Research Centre looks at the factors that hamper poverty reduction in these areas. It argues that development approaches that have worked elsewhere cannot always be transposed to remote areas.
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  A matter of timing: migration and housing access in metropolitan Johannesburg

  Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2002

  The main findings from this study sheds new light on the dynamics of state control over African urbanisation in Johannesburg and its consequences for social differentiation.It reveals that , in spite of state control to limit African urbanisation, the African population of Johannesburg grew steadily throughout the apartheid period.
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  Research review on social security reform and the basic income grant for South Africa

  Economic Policy Research Institute, South Africa, 2002

  This paper reviews several research papers that address social security reform in South Africa, with an emphasis on the proposal for the basic income grant.

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