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    Social protection in sub-Saharan Africa: will the green shoots blossom?

    Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2010
    Interest in social protection has grown rapidly in sub-Saharan Africa over the last decade. This paper provides an overview of the recent extension of social protection in sub-Saharan Africa.
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    Pension reform options for Russia and Ukraine: a critical analysis of available options and their expected outcomes with a focus on labour market

    Center for Social and Economic Research, Poland, 2010
    This paper analyses key problems related to pension systems and their reforms in Russia and Ukraine, comparing the two cases with OECD countries in general case as well as selected countries. The document reviews 22 options proposed /implemented/to be implemented in Russia and Ukraine in the context of reforming pension system, elaborating possible effects on labour market and restructurin
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    Ageing in the Caribbean: exploring some major concerns for family and society

    Global Action on Aging, 2010
    At the start of the 21st century, the Caribbean population of older persons - those 60 years and older - was larger than ever before in the history of the region.
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    Global Extension of Social Security

    GESS is a global knowledge sharing platform on the extension of social security and aims to facilitate the exchange of information and ideas, capture and document experiences, identify knowledge gaps,
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    Providing greater old-age security in China

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2010
    China’s population is ageing fast, owing to low fertility and rising life expectancy. Migration of the young to urban areas is raising the proportion of the elderly in the rural population and the increase in the old-age dependency ratio will be even more pronounced in rural than in urban areas.
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    The Impact of the global economic crisis on the Pacific region

    Oxfam Australia, 2010
    Whilst at a macroeconomic level, the Global Economic Crisis (GEC) has had less impact on many Pacific countries than on most other developing countries, impacts from the GEC are ongoing and vary greatly across Pacific countries.
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    Cash transfers: to condition or not to condition?

    Eldis Gateway to Development and Environment Information, 2009
    In response to the recent food crisis and global financial crisis, the G-20 countries and the World Bank announced increased spending on social protection programmes, including cash-based systems.
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    Response to 'Targeting Social Cash Transfers' comment

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2009
    Responding to the paper Targeting Social Cash Transfers comment, (on the process of defining target groups and designing the targeting mechanism for the Malawi Social Cash Transfer Scheme), the author of this response suggests that the Comment is shaky, incoherent, defeatist, misguided and - in the final analysis - fatally flawed.The respondent argues that the comment is:
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    Electronic delivery of social cash transfers: lessons learned and opportunities for Africa

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2010
    Delivery of cash transfers typically involves a compromise between the cost of reaching recipients literally at the door of their homes, and the savings from providing them at a central point to which recipients must travel to receive their benefit.
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    Work histories and pension entitlements in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay

    Social Protection and Labor, World Bank, 2010
    This paper proposes alternative methods to project pension rights and implement these methods in Chile, Uruguay and Argentina. The paper indicates that the histories of contribution required to access pensions are apparently unattainable for large segments of the population, at least under the labour market conditions that have prevailed in the region.

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