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    Cash transfers, gender and generational relations: evidence from a pilot project in Lesotho

    Overseas Development Institute, 2008
    This paper reviews the World Vision's 'Cash and Food Transfers Pilot Project' in Lesotho, focusing on the impact of cash transfers on gender relations. The paper highlights the concerns that cash transfer programmes may have significant negative gender impacts. I the suspicions about women's ability to control the use of cash within the household compared to certain types of in-kind assistance.
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    Conditional cash transfers: a ‘pathway to women’s empowerment’?

    Pathways of Women's Empowerment RPC, 2008
    Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) provide mothers of school-age children in extreme poverty with a cash subsidy conditional on their children's attendance at school and health clinics. This paper assesses the evidence for the claim that these programmes empower women. It finds that:
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    Making the difference! The BIG in Namibia

    Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2009
    This paper reports the socio-economic results after the implementation of the Basic Income Grant (BIG) Pilot Project in Otjivero settlement and the Omitara 'town' in the Omitara District in Nambia for one year. Otjivero-Omitara was selected for its manageable size, accessibility, and extreme poverty.
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    Retirement responses to a generous pension reform: evidence from a natural experiment in Eastern Europe

    Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2010
    Although a number of emerging countries have successfully introduced non-contributory pensions with broad coverage, very little is known about the labour market and retirement effects of pension systems in the developing world.
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    National retirement savings systems in Australia, Chile,New Zealand and the United Kingdom: lessons for the United States

    Retirement Security Project, Brookings, 2010
    Americans today face precarious retirement prospects that have only been made worse by the recession that began in 2007. The US social security system will only be solvent until 2019, after which it will spend more in benefits than it will receive in payroll and other taxes.
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    Retirement Security Project, Brookings

    The Retirement Security Project is dedicated to promoting solutions to improve the retirement income prospects of millions of American workers.
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    Social security system in India: an international comparative analysis

    Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2010
    In India the lack of a wide social security net has serious implications for well-being of aged, poor people who are unable to meet their old age needs. India’s workforce is largely based in unorganised sector where pension provisions are mainly of a  voluntary nature. The size of this sector is a bottleneck in social security provision to the elderly poor in India.
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    Welfare, inequality and financial consequences of a multi-pillar pension system. A reform in Peru

    Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, 2010
    Peru created the Private Pension system (SPP) in 1993, without dismantling its old defined benefit system (the National Pension System, SNP).  However, members of the SPP (those who previously belonged to the SNP) realised that the expected or already received benefits in the SPP were lower than those in the SNP.  In order to correct this effects, there have been many costly adjustments
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    A social pension in Zambia: perceptions of the cash transfer pilot in Katete

    HelpAge International, 2009
    The Government of Zambia, via its Ministry of Community Development and Social Services (MCDSS), has been running a set of pilot cash transfers to test which could best form the basis of a national social protection system. The pilot being run in the Katete district transfers money to everyone over the age of 60 years, thus creating a form of social pension.
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    UNECE policy brief on ageing 1: mainstreaming ageing

    Project on Population Ageing, Economic Commission for Europe, 2009
    This policy brief looks at how governments can integrate ageing-related issues into all policy fields in order to bring societies and economies in harmony with demographic change. It also addresses the ways in which all age groups can be equally involved in designing, implementing and evaluating ageing-related policies and programmes.

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