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    Towards a basic income grant for all: Basic Income Grant pilot project assessment report, September 2008

    BIG coalition namibia, 2008
    Namibia has one of the highest levels of income inequality in the world, a by-product of colonialism, apartheid and recent economic policies. To address inequality, the Namibian Government’s Namibian Tax Consortium (NAMTAX) identified the need for a universal grant in the form of a Basic Income Grant (BIG), to be financed out of a progressive expenditure tax on non-poor people, in 2002.
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    BIG coalition namibia

    The proposal for a Basic Income Grant (BIG) in Namibia was made in 2002 by the Namibian Tax Consortium (NAMTAX), a government appointed commission.
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    Sharing demographic risk – who is afraid of the baby bust?

    Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging, 2008
    Falling fertility rates and increasing life expectancy are putting a strain on existing public Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) pension systems. The authors model the optimal reaction of a pubic PAYGO pension system to demographic shocks. They assume the existence of a fully committed planner.
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    Reforms to an individual account pension system and their effects on work and contribution decisions: the case of Chile

    Pension Research Council, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2008
    This study evaluates the effect of Chile’s pension system rules and regulations on individuals’ contribution and working decisions. In 1980 Chile was the first country to switch from a pay-as-you-go system to a
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    The impact of the demographic dividend on three key support systems: education, health care, and pensions

    2008
    The possible economic benefits of the demographic dividend and the possible detrimental aspects of population ageing both originate in the economic life cycle  a pattern of economic activity that has been found to be broadly similar across countries, with some important variations.
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    The global financial crisis and developing countries

    Overseas Development Institute, 2008
    Many developing countries are still growing strongly despite the current global financial downturn, but forecasts are worsening. This background note from ODI questions how long this growth can persist. There are different channels through which the crisis could spread and some countries are more at risk than others.
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    Cash transfers and child labour: an intriguing relationship

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2008
    Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes provide cash to poor households. In return, the households are expected to meet the conditionalities attached to schooling, among others. Several evaluations have found positive impacts on primary school attendance. This one page article considers how CCT programmes have impacted on Child Labour.
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    Do cash transfers enable the very poor to save?

    Oxford Policy Management, 2008
    Experiences from around show that building poor people’s capacities to accumulate assets for the long term is central to poverty reduction. In this process, household savings play a particularly significant role. Contrary to what one might assume, evidence increasingly points to the fact that poor people are able to and do save.
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    Community-based risk management arrangements: an overview and implications for social fund program design

    Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 2008
    Development practitioners increasingly recognise the role played by risk exposure and vulnerability in trapping people in poverty. This is why poverty reduction initiatives these days aim to understand and address risk, household responses to risk and shocks and safety nets.
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    Extreme poverty in Bangladesh: protecting and promoting rural livelihoods

    Overseas Development Institute, 2008
    In spite of recent economic growth, Bangladesh remains a country marked by high poverty. Poverty is particularly high in rural areas where the vast majority of people depend on agriculture. In this context, the government and NGOs are implementing various social protection interventions to provide the poorest households with safety nets. But how effective have these initiatives been?

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