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    Social protection for the elderly as a development strategy: a case study of Kenya’s old persons cash transfer programme

    2010
    Kenya has made progressive investments in social protection for the ageing, providing lessons and existing opportunities for similar programmes. In Kenya, there has been a paradigm shift from universal social protection schemes targeted at formal employees to inclusive schemes including both formal and informal sectors, corporations and individuals.
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    Promoting the rights of older people in the community in Mae Hong Son province

    HelpAge International, 2014
    Thailand has a national plan on ageing and national bodies aiming to promote wellbeing of older people, including promoting their rights. Still, it appears that gaining information on and accessing the rights and entitlements under the law is quite limited in scope.
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    Pension design with a large informal labor market: evidence from Chile

    Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2014
    Over the last three decades, many governments have considered or introduced fully-funded, privately-managed, individual accounts-based pension programmes. Chile was the earliest and most influential example of such a reform in 1980, and the only one for which more than 29 years of data are available.
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    Towards universal pension coverage in Mexico

    HelpAge International, 2014
    Until recently, there was no social pension provision in Mexico; all pensions were earnings-related, financed with government subsidies and payroll taxes. Mexico introduced social pensions long after other Latin American countries, and for that reason had pension coverage of only 22 per cent as late as 2000. Just 13 years later, 88 per cent of older people had pensions.
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    The state of social safety nets 2014

    World Bank, 2014
    ocial safety nets are non-contributory transfers designed to provide regular and predictable support to targeted poor and vulnerable people.
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    Why ‘the poor’ don’t exist (and what this means for social protection policy)

    Development Pathways, 2014
    The last few years have seen growing calls for countires to expand basic "floors" of social protection that guarantee income security and access to basic services throughout the life cycle.
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    Advocating for social pensions: lessons learnt from the Philippines

    HelpAge International, 2014
    Social pensions provide secure income for older people and are critical to reducing extreme poverty for older people. The Coalition of Services for the Elderly (COSE) has been enabling older people to form community-led groups in the Philippines for over 20 years.
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    Social protection and wellbeing: food security in Adivasi communities, Chhattisgarh, India

    Wellbeing and Poverty Pathways, University of Bath, 2014
    Despite economic growth, persistent levels of absolute poverty remain across the world. Social protection is an important response to this, guaranteeing a basic level of income support. The state of Chhattisgarh, India, provides an interesting model, as government commitment and people?s action combine to buttress food security in communities with historically high levels of disadvantage.
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    Wellbeing pathways report: Zambia round 2

    Wellbeing and Poverty Pathways, University of Bath, 2014
    Based on fieldwork questions which gathered both objective and subjective data across key areas of life, this report presents the preliminary findings from the second round of fieldwork carried out in Chiawa, Zambia from August to October 2012 as part of the Wellbeing and Poverty Pathways research project.
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    Household registration and targeting in the Hunger Safety Net Programme 2

    Evidence on Demand, 2013
    The four counties of Turkana, Marsabit, Mandera and Wajir were chosen for the Hunger Safety Net Program (HSNP) because they had the highest poverty and extreme poverty rates measured in Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey (KIHBS) 2005-06. This report outlines the rationale behind the targeting approach for the Kenya Hunger Safety Net Programme.

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