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  Building social capital for the ultra poor: challenges and achievements

  Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, 2005

  BRAC introduced a programme designed to meet the special needs of the extreme poor called, "Challenging the frontier of poverty reduction: targeting ultra poor (TUP)" programme in 2002. The programme consists of economic and health inputs designed to create sustainable livelihoods. However, it was felt that the assets they received might be vulnerable to theft and damage.
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  The impact of conditional cash transfers on human development outcomes: a review of evidence from PROGRESA in Mexico and some implications for policy debates in South and Southern Africa

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005

  This paper reflects on assessments of Mexico's Conditional Cash Transfer scheme (called PROGRESA) and draws comparisons with South Africa's Child Support Grant (CSG).
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  Community based targeting mechanisms for social safety nets

  World Bank, 2001

  This paper reviews case studies and theory on community involvement in beneficiary selection and benefit delivery for social safety nets. It highlights four key issues: communities vary in their ability to mobilize information and implement effective monitoring systems, and this will influence whether community based targeting leads to cost saving advantages or just opens up more opport
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  Sense in sociability? Social exclustion and persistent poverty in South Africa

  BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004

  This paper queries the ability of the South African poor to use social mechanisms of accessing capital as an exit route out of poverty.
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  A lecture on the political economy of targeted safety nets

  World Bank, 2005

  This 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.
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  School meals, educational achievement and school competition: evidence from a randomized evaluation

  World Bank Research, 2004

  This paper examines the effects of subsidised school meals on preschool participation, educational achievement, and school finance in Kenya.Findings from the study include:the meals programme led to higher curriculum test scores, but only in schools where the teacher was relatively experienced prior to the programmethe school meals displaced teaching time and led to larger class siz
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  Severe poverty and growth: a macro-micro analysis

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2004

  This paper discusses the relationship between growth and poverty and argues that there is sufficient evidence to demonstrate policy and institutional changes that would enable an exit out of poverty.
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  Forging partnership for social protection in South and East Asia

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2005

  This paper represents a summary of the discussions from a workshop that sought to identify useful models, case studies and best practices that would be useful in building and maintaining viable systems for social protection. The results of the workshop are intended to feed into developing strategy to rebuild social protection systems after decades of neglect.
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  A missing point in the livelihoods approach: the question of property rights

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2005

  This paper explores the relationship between property rights and livelihoods.
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  Option values, switches and wages: an analysis of the employment guarantee scheme in India

  School of Economic Studies, University of Manchester, 2004

  This paper argues that the value of the Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) in the Indian state of Maharashtra and its impact on workers’ behaviour do not depend so much on income supplementation as on enlargement of opportunities in an uncertain environment of the local labour market.

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