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Equity in educational expenditures: can government subsidies help?
World Bank, 2004This paper examines government education subsidy schemes in Zambia. It asks the following questions:do resources allocated by the central authority actually reach intended recipients?DocumentIdentification of the poor: flaws in government surveys
Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2004This article challenges the basis of poverty indicators being used to determine the levels "Below the Poverty Line" (BPL) in Madhya Pradesh, India.DocumentSocial security for children in the context of AIDS: questioning the state's response
Medical Research Council, South Africa, 2004This paper argues that the existing state security provision is not a sufficient mechanism to support poor orphans and vulnerable children.DocumentSocial security policy reform in post-apartheid South Africa: a focus on the basic income grant
Centre for Civil Society, South Africa, 2004In 2000 a South African government committee recommended the introduction of a basic income grant (BIG), consisting of a grant of R100 per month for every South African citizen, regardless of age or income level.DocumentBrazilian population ageing: differences in well-being by rural and urban areas
Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada / Institute of Applied Economic Research, Brazil, 2002This paper examines the familial arrangements, health condition, economic activity and income of those aged over 60 in Brazil, using data from the General Household Surveys of 1981 and 1999.Its findings include that: although fertility and mortality are much higher in rural areas compared to urban ones, the proportion of the elderly population in the total population is about the same iDocumentChildren in need of care or in need of cash? Questioning social security provisions for orphans in the context of the South African AIDS pandemic
Children's Institute, University of Cape Town, 2003The South African debate on social security provision for children in the context of the HIV/AIDS pandemic has focussed primarily on different mechanisms for giving cash grants to children who have been orphaned.DocumentPoverty dynamics in rural Kenya and Madagascar
BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004This paper is a micro-level attempt to empirically test hypotheses of economic growth by examining risk management, marginal returns on productive assets, and asset dynamics across settings distinguished by different agroecological and market access conditions, in Kenya and Madagascar.The author claims that macroeconomic growth theories are characterized by three different hypotheses, which havDocumentUnsustainable livelihoods, health shocks and urban chronic poverty: rickshaw pullers as a case study
Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2004This study presents an analysis of rickshaw pullers in Bangladesh and draws evidence to suggest that there ought to better analysis given to labour intensive approaches to pro-poor growth policies. The main findings from this study are:that a rickshaw puller has a slight advantage over an agricultural labourer characterised by regularity of income flows.DocumentScaling up Kudumbashree: collective action for poverty alleviation and women's empowerment
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004This paper discusses the factors that enabled and constrained the scaling up of a multisectoral poverty alleviation program called Kudumbashree, initiated by the government of Kerala (GOK), India, in 1998 to eradicate poverty by 2008. Kudumbashree was characterised by the creation of community development societies (CDS) and neighbourhood groups (NHG).