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    Response to 'Targeting Social Cash Transfers' comment

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2009
    Responding to the paper Targeting Social Cash Transfers comment, (on the process of defining target groups and designing the targeting mechanism for the Malawi Social Cash Transfer Scheme), the author of this response suggests that the Comment is shaky, incoherent, defeatist, misguided and - in the final analysis - fatally flawed.The respondent argues that the comment is:
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    Electronic delivery of social cash transfers: lessons learned and opportunities for Africa

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2010
    Delivery of cash transfers typically involves a compromise between the cost of reaching recipients literally at the door of their homes, and the savings from providing them at a central point to which recipients must travel to receive their benefit.
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    World Demographic and Ageing Forum, WDA Forum

    The WDA Forum addresses topics of vital interest to worldwide leaders from the political arena, the business community, non-governmental organisations, and academic circles, as well as the public at l
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    The graying of global population and its macroeconomic consequences

    Harvard School of Public Health, 2010
    This article examines the nature and magnitude of population forecasts and reviews evidence on the effects of population ageing on national economic performance.
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    Work histories and pension entitlements in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay

    Social Protection and Labor, World Bank, 2010
    This paper proposes alternative methods to project pension rights and implement these methods in Chile, Uruguay and Argentina. The paper indicates that the histories of contribution required to access pensions are apparently unattainable for large segments of the population, at least under the labour market conditions that have prevailed in the region.
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    Retirement responses to a generous pension reform: evidence from a natural experiment in Eastern Europe

    Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2010
    Although a number of emerging countries have successfully introduced non-contributory pensions with broad coverage, very little is known about the labour market and retirement effects of pension systems in the developing world.
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    National retirement savings systems in Australia, Chile,New Zealand and the United Kingdom: lessons for the United States

    Retirement Security Project, Brookings, 2010
    Americans today face precarious retirement prospects that have only been made worse by the recession that began in 2007. The US social security system will only be solvent until 2019, after which it will spend more in benefits than it will receive in payroll and other taxes.
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    Retirement Security Project, Brookings

    The Retirement Security Project is dedicated to promoting solutions to improve the retirement income prospects of millions of American workers.
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    Health Disparities Program, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

    The  Health Disparities Program is a resource for policymakers, planners, advocates, researchers and the media in understanding the unique health concerns of populations challenged by gaps in hea
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    American Indian elder health: critical information for researchers and policymakers

    Health Disparities Program, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, 2010
    The elderly population (age 55 and older) among American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIAN) is projected to increase from 5.5% of the total U.S. AIAN population in 1990 to 12.6% in 2050. Many are failing to participate in health insurance programmes. The shifting demographic profile of the population calls for focused attention on the health status of AIAN elders.

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