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    Assessing vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate risks: methods for investigation at local and national levels

    World Bank, 2009
    This paper presents the research and learning approach of a World Bank study, and offers emerging findings on policy, as well as institutional questions surrounding adaptation arenas in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Ghana and Mozambique.
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    Social assistance and disability in developing countries

    Sightsavers International, 2010
    This study uses literature reviews and interviews to investigate social assistance for disabled people in developing countries. It examines attitudes towards social assistance within the disability movement, and reviews the characteristics of mainstream and targeted social assistance programmes in order to understand their current scope and how best they can reach and benefit disabled people.
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    Social assistance and disability: initial learning

    Sightsavers International, 2010
    Governments and development agencies increasingly recognise social protection as an important component of poverty reduction and development. Social assistance, defined as non-contributory, regular and predictable cash or in-kind transfers, has received particular attention.
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    The social and economic effects of the Disability Grant for people with disabilities and their households: a qualitative study in KwaZulu Natal Province

    School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2007
    People with disabilities (PWD) face physical and attitudinal barriers to participation in education, the labour market and development processes. In South Africa, there is a need for appropriate social assistance for PWD. Currently this is done through a means-tested cash transfer known as the Disability Grant (DG).
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    Social protection and climate change adaption

    Commission on Climate Change and Development, 2008
    Social protection initiatives are as much at risk from climate change as other development approaches, and they are unlikely to succeed in reducing poverty if they do not consider short and long-term shocks andstresses associated with climate change.
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    Centre for Social Protection (CSP)

    The Centre for Social Protection (CSP) at the Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK, supports a network of partners working to mainstream social protection in development policy and encourage
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    Social protection in Africa: where next?

    Centre for Social Protection, 2010
    Has social protection in sub-Saharan Africa lost its way? Many countries now have social protection strategies. Emergency cash transfers have displaced or complemented food aid, some large-scale programmes have been introduced, others have been consolidated.
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    The Chinese pension system – first results on assessing the reform options

    Economic Commission for Europe, UN, 2010
    The Chinese population, totalling 1.3 billion, is ageing fast. The Chinese pension system covers only 55% of urban employees and reaches a very small part of the rural population. 
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    Advancing child-sensitive social protection

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2010
    There is a growing body of evidence from a range of developing countries that social protection programmes can effectively increase the nutritional, health and educational status of children and reduce their risk of abuse and exploitation.
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    Universal minimum old age pensions impact on poverty and fiscal cost in 18 Latin American countries

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2010
    In Latin America, five countries - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica and Uruguay - have non-contributory pensions.  But pension coverage rates remain below 30% in half of Latin American countries.

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