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Addressing the employment-poverty nexus in Kenya: comparing cash-transfer and job-creation programmes
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007What is the link between employment and poverty reduction in Kenya? This paper examines unemployment, underemployment, employment and labour earnings, and the relationship of all these with poverty. Based on an analysis of a Labour Force Survey, the author finds that:DocumentDreams that do not come true: re-addressing social security to expand old-age social protection: the case of informal workers in El Salvador
Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands, 2007This paper explores obstacles and opportunities to expand social protection for informal workers in El Salvador. It rules out the short-term possibility that old-age social protection in El Salvador will be expanded through social security measures. Workers are entitled to pension only if they fulfil certain minimum requirements that are out of reach for the majority.DocumentRethinking economic reform in Jordan: confronting socioeconomic realities
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2007This paper explores the extent of and limits to the economic reform process in Jordan since 1989. It argues that the general public is sceptical about reforms because previous efforts failed to address the major social and economic problems affecting the majority of its citizens. Likewise, reform efforts face severe resistance from elites who benefit from the status quo.DocumentBudget policy and income distribution
International Studies Programmme, Georgia State University, 2007This paper provides an overview of the conceptual bases of incidence analyses. It highlights some measurement issues, reviews the main techniques used to estimate tax, benefit and fiscal incidence, and summarises the empirical results that have been obtained for developing countries.DocumentConditional cash transfers in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico: impacts on inequality
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007This working paper examines whether Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programmes have had an inequality reducing effect in three Latin American countries: Brazil, Mexico and Chile.DocumentCountry study: an employment-targeted economic programme for South Africa
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006At the 2003 Growth and Development Summit, South African President Thabo Mbeki singled out "more jobs, better jobs and decent work for all" as one of the country's key economic challenges. With the pledge to cut the unemployment rate by half by 2014, difficult policy changes are inevitable.DocumentUsing social transfers to improve human development
Department for International Development, UK, 2006Scaling up investment in service provision and quality is necessary, but is not sufficient to achieve universal access to health and education services. Specific policies to boost demand and expand equitable access to quality health and education services are also required.DocumentGendered implications of tax reform in Latin America: Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Jamaica
United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005In the context of Latin American and Caribbean countries, this paper proposes that the most effective means for reducing class- and gender-based poverty and inequality is citizenship-based entitlements to basic (i.e.DocumentA lecture on the political economy of targeted safety nets
World Bank, 2005This paper sheds light on the importance of political support towards designing safety net policies. In drawing on the crisis safety net programs in Indonesia from 1998 to 2000, the author reviews 5 major issues namely, models of electoral politics, safety ropes vs.