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  Insurance products provided by insurance companies to the disadvantaged groups in India

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  This study identifies and documents the various insurance products provided by insurance companies to the disadvantaged groups in India. It is designed to help development professional to play a more efficient role in the promotion of new insurance services and thus contributing to the extension of social protection to the excluded groups.
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  The impact of a conditional education subsidy on school enrolment in Colombia

  Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, 2005

  This study estimates the short-term impact on school enrolment of a large welfare programme in Colombia, Familias en Acción. The programme offers a monthly subsidy to eligible mothers conditional on their child(ren) attending school.The study finds that the programme has been effective at increasing enrolment, particularly amongst 14- to 17-year-olds, in both urban and rural areas.
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  On assessing pro-poorness of government programmes: international comparisons

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2005

  This paper proposes a new "Pro-Poor Policy (PPP)" index, which measures the pro-poorness of government programmes, as well as basic service delivery in education, health and infrastructure.
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  Insurance for the poor?

  Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 2005

  This paper discusses the scope for extending insurance to the poor in Latin America and Carribbean (LAC) countries. It highlights the need to reduce risk and its consequences, as current systems do not provide sufficient protection. On this basis, it argues that insurance provision to the poor has a role to play within a comprehensive system of protection against risk.
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  Prospects for basic income in developing countries: a comparative analysis of welfare regimes in the south

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005

  This paper explores the prospects for future pro-poor reforms to welfare regimes in the south through an analysis of the development of Southern welfare regimes in the past.
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  Microfinance and the state: exploring areas and structures of collaboration

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2005

  This paper reviews the performance of formal institutional channels of microfinance and discusses the emergence of new forms of collaboration in the delivery of microfinance services. Some pertinent issues in regulatory policies and institutional arrangements that can help the state effectively and in a sustainable manner leverage the available resources for the poor are also dealt with.
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  Politics and the PRS approach in Southern Africa

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005

  This presentation reviews the political dimensions of the PRSP approach in the Southern Africa sub-region.
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  Education choices in Mexico: using a structural model and a randomised experiment to evaluate Progresa

  Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, 2005

  This paper evaluates a large welfare programme in rural Mexico called Progresa, whose main aim is to improve the process of human capital accumulation in the poorest communities by providing cash transfers conditional on specific types of behaviour in three key areas targeted by the programme: nutrition, health and education.The aim of this paper is to analyse the impact of monetary incentives
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  Thinking about the politics of social protection in Africa: towards a conceptual and theoretical approach

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2005

  This paper examines how particular forms and types of politics shape policy responses on social protection in Africa, and also the political impacts and implications of adopting social protection policies.
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  Gendered analysis of the working for water programme: a case study of the Tsitsikama Working for Water project

  Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2005

  Governments have attempted to mitigate the effects of high unemployment in various ways, particularly through targeted interventions such as public works programmes. The Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) of the South African government aims to address unemployment by creating labour intensive jobs through government expenditure.

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