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    Social security in other countries: worldwide social security agencies

    Social Security Online, 2008
    Directory of websites of social security agencies and organisations around the world. Compiled by Social Security Online (USA).
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    Introducing basic social protection in low-income countries: lessons from existing programmes

    Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2007
    This paper reviews tax-financed social assistance through transfers in kind or cash in low-income countries. Such assistance is often constrained by path dependence at a micro level due to fragmentation of programmes and the presence of attached constituencies. Important factors for the sustainability of social protection programmes are:
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    Vulnerability and social protection in Malawi

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    Vulnerability appears to be rising for many Malawians, whose exposure to livelihood shocks is increasing while their ability to cope is decreasing.
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    Famine in Malawi: causes and consequences

    Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2007
    Reports of a devastating famine in Malawi first surfaced as rumors whispered in rural areas in the country around October 2001. However, little was done by way of action, despite warnings from expert civil society groups.
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    Uninsured risk and asset protection: can conditional cash transfer programs serve as safety nets?

    Social Development, World Bank, 2006
    Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes have proved to be effective in inducing chronic poor households to invest in the human capital of their children while helping reduce poverty. They have also protected child human capital from the shocks that affect these households.
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    Can all cash transfers reduce inequality?

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007
    This one-page document examines the impact of three Latin American Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programmes providing cash transfers to poor families, conditioned on children’s school attendance and regular medical checks-ups.
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    Disparity, deprivation and discrimination in rural India

    Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2007
    Despite the good performance of India's economy in recent years, disadvantaged groups such as the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) face both higher incidence and intensity of poverty than other groups.
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    Financing social protection

    Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2007
    Social protection helps communities, households and individuals to protect themselves against contingencies threatening their living standard. Financing has emerged as a key constraint on the extension of social protection in developing countries.
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    Evaluating the impact of Brazil’s Bolsa Família: Cash transfer programmes in comparative perspective

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007
    Created in 2004, Brazil's Bolsa Familia programme consists of monthly cash transfers to poor households with children or pregnant women and unconditional transfers to extremely poor households. This paper examines how successfully and efficiently Bolsa Familia eases poverty and breaks its intergenerational transmission.
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    From targeted to universal social protection: Vietnam’s reality

    Department for International Development, UK, 2007
    The paper examines Vietnam's move from a targeted to a unified social insurance programme which has been approved by the National Assembly in 2006. To promote inclusion the social insurance programme is designed to:

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