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    A generation in transition: older people’s situation and civil society’s response in East and Central Europe

    HelpAge International, 2002
    Document drawing on HelpAge International’s experience of engagement with the East and Central European Network (ECEN) of civil society organisations working with and for older people.It aims to provide decision-makers within government, local and national civil society organisations, regional agencies and older people themselves with the following: a snapshot of the real issues, as ide
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    Research review on social security reform and the basic income grant for South Africa

    Economic Policy Research Institute, South Africa, 2002
    This paper reviews several research papers that address social security reform in South Africa, with an emphasis on the proposal for the basic income grant.
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    Safety nets and opportunity ladders: addressing vulnerability and enhancing productivity in South Asia

    Overseas Development Institute, 2002
    This paper aims to review literature on social protection measures in the context of India and Bangladesh. It explores whether some of the lessons learned from responses to vulnerability lend themselves to the notion of 'investment' in broader development goals.
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    Actual and de facto childlessness in East Java: a preliminary analysis

    Oxford Institute of Ageing, 2002
    The limitations of state provision in developing countries have meant that research on elderly welfare has more or less inevitably focussed on support available via family systems. The short answer to the question “What help exists for poor and frail elderly people?” presupposes a simple solution: their children.
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    Social Welfare Systems in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis Including Private Welfare

    Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, 1998
    Overview of the social welfare systems of five East Asian countries, namely Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. It analyses the overall costs of welfare as well as income distribution aspects, based on both aggregate data and a programme-by-programme review of their welfare states (presented in annex). Private welfare is introduced in the analysis in two ways.
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    Thailand Social Monitor

    World Bank Office, Thailand, 1999
    Regular report on the social effects of the crisis, eash issue profiling a specific issue.These have includedSocial capital: what should be the role of family and community in providing social safety net services to Thais in need? What kind of social protection system should Thailand build in preparation for future downturns or other economic shocks.
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    Selling to eat: petty trading and traders in peri-urban areas of sub-saharan Africa

    Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999
    This article explores the increasing proliferation of petty traders, in Africa's sprawling peri-urban areas.Conclusions:The proliferation of petty traders in most peri-urban areas can be interpreted as an unhealthy symptom of economic underdevelopment.
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    Impacts of the Indonesian economic crisis: price changes and the poor

    National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 1999
    Did the recent financial crisis in Indonesia result in dramatic price increases? In the Indonesian case the very poor appear the most vulnerable.
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    Access to credit and its impact on welfare in Malawi

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001
    This report analyzes the determinants of access to credit in Malawi and its impact on farm and nonfarm income and on household food security and seeks to quantify the relationship between the demand for formal loans and that for informal loans.Key obsevervations of this study include:the contribution of rural microfinance in-stitutions to the income of smallholders can be limited or out
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    Strategic approaches to HIV prevention and AIDS mitigation in rural communities and households in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2001
    This paper aims to provide a suggested framework of action for FAO' s engagement in HIV/AIDS prevention and impact-mitigation in rural Sub Saharan Africa at the community and household level.

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