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    The changing well-being of Thai elderly: An update from the 2011 Survey of Older Persons in Thailand

    Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2013
    Population ageing and the well-being of older persons are major emerging challenges for families, communities and government in Thailand as in much of Asia.
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    Briefing No. 1 (revised): An integrated approach to wellbeing assessment

    Wellbeing and Poverty Pathways, University of Bath, 2013
    This revised and updated briefing paper introduces the approach to Wellbeing assessment being developed and applied by Wellbeing and Poverty Pathways in its three-year research project in Zambia and India. Key elements of the approach are:
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    Latin America’s rural family farmers: evolutions in access to markets and rural income structure

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    Over time, the rural reality in Latin America has changed, with family farmers now more integrated in markets and significantly less dependent on agriculture for income. What does this mean for family farmers today?
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    Indigenous peoples and climate change in Africa

    Legal Assistance Centre, 2013
    Through two participatory case studies, this paper examines the impact of climate change on the indigenous peoples of Namibia.
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    Final Impact Evaluation of the Saving for Change Program in Mali, 2009-2012

    2013
    Saving for Change (SfC) is a community savings group programme designed and implemented by Oxfam America, Freedom from Hunger, and the Strømme Foundation. SfC operates in 13 countries in West Africa, Latin America and Asia.
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    How best to measure pension adequacy

    Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economic and Related Disciplines (STICERD), LSE, 2013
    Though the main benchmark used to assess pension reforms continues to be the expected resulting fall in future government spending, the impact of policy changes on pension adequacy is increasingly coming to the fore.
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    'Mucupuki' Revisited: Assessing the Implications of PARP/A in Central Mozambique 2008-2011

    2012
    This is the final report in a series of six studies to monitor and evaluate Mozambique’s Poverty Reduction Strategies PARP/A (2006-2012). The series focuses on three different areas in the country, including the District of Buzi in the central province of Sofala.
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    Assessing the Implications of PARP/A in Central Mozambique 2008-2011

    2012
    In a series of six studies, the local implications of Mozambique’s Poverty Reduction Strategies PARP/A (2006-2014) have been monitored and evaluated by focusing on the district of Murrupula, the city of Maputo and the district of Buzi. Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative data, each site has been visited twice with a three-year interval.
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    Inequality watch

    Norwegian People's Aid, 2012
    This report is a contribution to the development policy debate. It shows that it is a too narrow approach to limit the targets of development policy to growth or to lifting a population above an artificial poverty line. A clear prioritization of power and resources is needed. The report gives a thorough analysis of inequality and development in Bolivia, El Salvador, South Africa, and Mozambique.
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    World Report on Child Labour: Economic vulnerability, social protection and the fight against child labour

    International Labour Organization, 2013
    What can be done to ensure more – and faster – progress in tackling child labour? This report argues that child labour is driven in part by household vulnerabilities associated with poverty, risk and shocks, and that social security is critical to mitigating these vulnerabilities.

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