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  • Organisation

    Livelihoods MANTHAN

    Livelihoods MANTHAN (Management Academic Institutes Network for Transforming Human resources through Action and Knowledge) provides a dynamic platform for academics, practitioners and livelihood promo
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    Infrastructure: Rapid evidence reviews

    Evidence on Demand, 2012
    This document contains a collection of the 15 Rapid Evidence Reviews commissioned by DFID as background papers for its Infrastructure Position Paper.
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    The Social Protection Index: assessing results for Asia and the Pacific

    Asian Development Bank, 2013
    Strengthening social protection represents a priority contribution to achieving inclusive growth, one of the three main pillars of the Asian Development Bank (ADB’s) Strategy 2020. This report analyses comprehensive 2009 data on government social protection programmes in 35 countries in Asia and the Pacific.
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    Tailoring social protection to small island developing states: lessons learned from the Caribbean

    Social Protection and Labor, World Bank, 2013
    Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have made significant commitment to address the needs of the vulnerable, as reflected by their level of spending, and the numerous safety net programs, labour market interventions, and insurance schemes. Nevertheless gaps remain, as many vulnerable groups are underserved and the systems show limited responsiveness to shocks.
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    Population ageing in Ghana: research gaps and the way forward

    Journal of Aging Research, 2010
    Although Ghana can still be classified as a having youthful population, reductions in fertility and mortality have resulted in increase in both the proportion and absolute number of elderly population. With the proportion of the elderly population currently at 7.2 percent, Ghana has one of the highest proportions of persons aged 60+ years in sub-Saharan Africa.
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    Beyond food security: transforming the PSNP in Ethiopia for the well-being of children

    Young Lives, 2012
    Using Young Lives survey and qualitative data collected in 2006 and 2009 among rural households and children in Ethiopia, this paper investigates the possible impacts of the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) on children’s well-being and recommends child-focused social protection that goes beyond the PSNP.
  • Organisation

    International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD)

    The ICTD is a global policy research network, devoted to improving the quality of tax policy and administration in developing countries, with a special focus on sub-Saharan Africa.
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    Pension coverage in China and the expansion of the New Rural Social Pension Scheme

    HelpAge International, 2013
    In just over 60 years, the pension system in China has changed from a residual policy issue in the shadow of major economic reform, to one that is now intrinsically linked to socio-economic transformation in China and underpins the transition from an export-driven to a consumption-based economy.
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    Social assistance and successful advocacy in Georgia: A social protection case study

    Oxfam, 2012
    Georgia, a lower middle-income country with a population of 4.5 million, gained independence in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Despite steady economic growth since 2004, living standards have failed to improve. A large percentage of people remain poor. Officially a third of the population live in poverty, with 15 percent of these living in ‘extreme poverty’.
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    Latin American experience in combining Disaster Risk Management with poverty reduction

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    Latin American countries are implementing a range of innovative strategies to address the underlying causes of disaster risk, while at the same time promoting social inclusion and productive growth.

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