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    The role of targeting in service delivery to vulnerable populations – the FANRPAN Household Vulnerability Index (HVI) - a synthesis of three country reports

    Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2009
    The objective of the Household Vulnerability Index (HVI) pilot study, conducted in Lesotho, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, was to further develop and test the HVI as a statistical tool for quantifying household vulnerability resulting from shocks such as HIV and AIDS. Key outputs from the study were a refined method for constructing the HVI and a computerised tool for its computation.
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    Predicted poverty impacts of expanding the Community Work Program me in South Africa: an analysis of income poverty and inequality

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2012
    The Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS), which guarantees low-skilled work to poor, unemployed individuals and in the process contributes to the creation of productive community assets and services.
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    Towards gender equality with care-sensitive social protection

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    This policy briefing argues that unpaid care work and social protection are intrinsically linked. Women and girls' uptake of social protection provisions is affected by their unpaid care work responsibilities. Conversely these essential provisions can help alleviate the drudgery and burden that unpaid care work places upon them.
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    Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) of workers welfare fund

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2012
    Government of Pakistan (GoP) has been facing challenges in ensuring workers’ welfare across the industrial entities of the country. While it has not been able to fully implement the macro-level labour reforms (e.g. the implementation of minimum wage – revised annually) however it is striving to put in place social safety nets such as Benazir Income Support Programmes.
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    Duration to coverage: dynamics of access to social security in the Egyptian labor market in the 1998-2012 period

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2014
    This paper investigates the dynamics of having access to social insurance (SI) coverage on the Egyptian labor market among wage workers throughout 1998 to 2012.
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    Social protection for older persons: Key policy trends and statistics

    International Labour Organization, 2014
    In recent years, many middle-and low-income countries have made great efforts to expand the coverage of contributory pension schemes and to establish non-contributory pensions to guarantee basic income security in old age to all.
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    Global AgeWatch Index 2014: insight report

    HelpAge International, 2014
    The Global AgeWatch Index has been created because of the overall lack of information on ageing combined with poor understanding of the effects of ageing on exclusion and marginalisation in services such as health care, education, training and pension provision.
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    Research briefing: Antipoverty transfers and inclusive growth in Brazil

    International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014
    The evolution of antipoverty policy in Brazil suggests a shift in focus over time from the extension of social insurance to incorporate excluded sectors, to conventional social assistance directed at vulnerable groups, to human development focused income transfers. This research briefing looks at the evolution of social assistance in Brazil and possble relevance for African countries.
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    Antipoverty transfers and inclusive growth in Brazil

    International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014
    Brazil’s has attracted considerable attention among low and middle income countries for the way it has successfully combined economic and social policies to reduce poverty, inequality, and social exclusion. The emergence of large scale social assistance institutions addressing poverty and social exclusion is central to these achievements.
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    Poverty and gender inequality in asset ownership among households in Southern Nigeria

    2014
    This study concerns gender inequality in the ownership of certain assets among households in Southern Nigeria. With the aid of a structured questionnaire, data were obtained from 60 households using the multistage sampling technique. Results of the analysis are presented using histograms.

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