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  Government spending on children in MTEF 2004/05: spotlighting social development programmes

  Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2004

  This brief focuses on child specific government programmes financed and administered by the provincial social development departments within the South African government.
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  The determinants of the health status in a developing country: results from the Columbian case

  Grupo de Investigaciones, Facultad de Economia, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia, 2004

  This paper describes the health system of Colombia and attempts to analyse the determinants of ‘health capital’.
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  Group Based Funeral Insurance in Ethiopia and Tanzania

  Department of Economics, University of Oxford, 2004

  This paper studies indigenous insurance institutions in Tanzania and Ethiopia. These highly structured organisations provide premium-based insurance for funerals, but are increasingly offering other types of insurance as well.
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  Effective distribution of social safety nets in Arab economies

  Arab Planning Institute, Kuwait, 2002

  [Document in Arabic] The paper aims to analyse the social safety net system in order to clarify the relationship between income distribution, growth and poverty in Arab economies. It attempts to determine the distributive pattern of financial aid provided by social safety net systems for the different strata of society.
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  The goal of workers’ welfare and policy challenges

  Strengthening Participatory Organization, Pakistan, 2003

  Pakistan’s recent Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (I-PRSP) has been criticised for failing to mention any policies for redundant industrial labour.
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  Longevity in Russia’s regions: do poverty and low public health spending kill?

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This paper examines the impact of changes in poverty and public health spending on inter-temporal variations in longevity using a unique regional-level dataset that covers 77 regions of Russia over the period 1994-2000. The dynamic panel data model is used as a tool for the empirical analysis. The model is estimated using the Arellano-Bond dynamic panel data estimator.
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  Towards feasible social security systems in sub-Saharan Africa

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2004

  The prospects for workable social security systems in sub-Saharan Africa do not appear encouraging.
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  Social security for the disabled in India

  Eldis Document Store, 2003

  This document argues that the current Indian Social Security programmes do not sufficiently address disability and associated problems of unemployment and poverty at the onset. Since most programmes are linked to formal employment, without factoring in the needs of disabled people.
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  The informal economy: fact finding study

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2004

  This study provides an overview of the characteristics of the informal economy in developing countries, identifies reasons for the significance of the informal economy, and provides recommendations for SIDA on how to address the issues raised through its development programmes.The paper emphasises that the informal economy needs to be better understood, by both governments and donors, because i
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  Child poverty and cash transfers

  Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004

  This paper addresses the effectiveness of cash transfers in addressing childhood poverty in developing and transition economies.

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