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    Unjust waters: climate change, flooding and the protection of poor urban communities: experiences from six African cities

    ActionAid International, 2007
    Six years ago, at the UN Millennium Summit, world leaders set a specific target for realising the right to adequate housing and ‘continuous improvement of living conditions’. However, in Africa climate change is already threatening that goal, causing massive rural-urban migration and bringing chronic flooding to the cities.
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    Participatory Vulnerability Analysis: a step–by–step guide for field staff

    ActionAid International, 2004
    This guide is developed to assist field workers and communities to analyse people’s vulnerability, draw action plans, mobilise resources and enact appropriate policies, laws and strategies to reduce their vulnerability to disaster. This guide is specifically developed consistent with the PVA approach to: 
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    Social protection and internal migration in Bangladesh: supporting the poorest

    Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2007
    How does migration exacerbate the difficulties that many people already face in accessing formal social protection, such as additional income or food? And how can migration itself facilitate access to an informal form of social protection for poorer households, even if this is risky and does not always lead to positive outcomes?
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    Innocenti Social Monitor 2006: understanding child poverty in South-Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States

    UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2006
    This study examines child poverty in the 20 countries of South-Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (SEE/CIS). It is designed to stimulate effective policy responses and action in these countries towards the decisive improvement of children’s lives.
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    Moving out of poverty - making migration work better for poor people

    Department for International Development, UK, 2007
    Migration remains a controversial issue. People talk about the impact of irregular migration, the loss of much-needed skills, social tensions and the rights of newcomers. This paper, published by the Department for International Development (DFID) aims to contribute to this debate and illustrates how well-managed migration can be a positive force for development.
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    Urban poverty and development in the 21st century: towards an inclusive and sustainable world

    Oxfam, 2006
    As of 2007, more people will live in cities than in rural areas, a proportion that is set to increase in years to come. In light of this, this paper argues that urban planning and urban development policies are crucial to the creation of an environmentally stable global society and discusses what can be done to promote more inclusive and sustainable cities.
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    Fate and fear: risk and its consequences in Africa

    ESRC Global Poverty Research Group, 2007
    Africa is vulnerable to numerous risks and shocks, including drought, natural disasters, conflict and political instability, and high levels of child and adult mortality and morbidity. This paper reviews micro-level evidence on risk and its implications for growth and poverty in Africa. The following key points are emphasised: 
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    Do workers in Chile choose informal employment? A dynamic analysis of sector choice

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2007
    To asses the coverage of Chile’s social insurance and pensions plan, this paper examines shifts in the country's labour market during a period of economic contraction. Employment in the formal sector requires workers to save for social insurance, while the self-employed can choose whether and how to save and the informal workers are responsible for their own pension.
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    Cash-transfer programming in emergencies: pocket cards

    Oxfam, 2006
    These 15 cards contain key elements on how to assess whether cash is the most appropriate response to any particular emergency.Three types of cash interventions are compared - cash grants, vouchers and cash-for-work. Benefits and disadvantages of all three forms are presented, and related issues such as community targeting and security of delivery are touched upon.
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    The Malawi social cash transfer scheme: preliminary lessons learned

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2006
    Evidence from a pilot social cash transfer programme in Malawi indicates that it is a cost-effective, quick way to meet the basic needs of ultra-poor households whose members are unable to work.

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