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The impact of economic reforms in rural households in Ethiopia
World Bank, 2002This study examines the poverty, and growth experience of six villages in rural Ethiopia, from 1989 to 1995.The time period was one of relative peace politically, which promoted considerable change in economic policies pertaining to the rural sector. As a result, local growth out-performed the average growth rate in gross domestic product.DocumentPolicy options for increasing the contribution of social protection to food security
Forum for Food Security in Southern Africa, ODI, 2003This paper asks: What social protection policies and institutions are needed to achieve the food security goal of ensuring adequate and appropriate food at affordable prices to all southern Africans at all times?The report defines social protection, sets out several dilemmas facing the implementation of effective social protection measures in southern Africa, and asks why the people in southernDocumentSupporting workers in the informal economy: a policy framework
International Labour Organization, 2002This paper argues that the informal economy is here to stay and requires appropriate regulations, laws and policies to correct biases in the existing regulatory, legal, and policy environment that favour formal enterprises and workers to the disadvantage of informal workers and enterprises.DocumentOptions for rural poverty reduction in Central America
Overseas Development Institute, 2003In the light of the reduction in aid for rural development (RD) during the 1990s, and only very slow improvement of conditions in rural areas, this paper asks, what can be done to identify better RD strategies?DocumentPublic expenditure for development results and poverty reduction
Overseas Development Institute, 2003Review and case studies of "Results-oriented (or ‘performance’ or ‘output’) budgeting": the planning of public expenditures for the purpose of achieving explicit and defined results. These policies have often been first implemented through sector-wide approaches (SWAps), particularly in health and education.DocumentModernization of the Bulgarian retirement policy: analytical review of the recent changes and prospects
Club 'Economika 2000', Bulgaria, 2002Why and how has the pension system been modernised in Bulgaria? This paper considers how economic, social and political needs for modernising pension policy and for reforming the pension system in Bulgaria was pronounced at the beginning of the 1990s.DocumentPoverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs): an assessment of the ILO’s experience
International Labour Organization, 2002The ILO has undertaken PRSP-related activities in a number of countries including five special focus countries (Cambodia, Honduras, Mali, Nepal and the United Republic of Tanzania), especially in Africa where the policy environment is so closely aligned to the development of PRSPs.This paper looks at the value-added of the ILO and its social partners in contributing to PRSPs and helping low-iDocumentSocial security for the unorganized in India: an approach paper
Eldis Document Store, 2002This paper suggests that traditionally the ILO and ministries of labour the world over believed that all workers would eventually end up in large enterprises, or at least in the formal sector. However, experience has proved otherwise. On the contrary, voluntary retirement schemes, out sourcing employment and casualization have become the key words of the corporate world these days.DocumentReducing health inequalities in developing countries
World Bank, 2002What does current thinking tell us about trends in health inequalities and methods for reducing such inequalities? This is the central question addressed by D.