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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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    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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    Guidelines for cash transfer programming

    International Committee of the Red Cross, 2006
    This document presents a guide to cash transfer programming. It looks to ascertain whether a cash programme is an appropriate response – and if appropriate a practical, step-by-step guide how to design and implement a cash programme is illustrated. The three sections in the paper discuss the following areas:
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    A regional multiplier approach to estimating the impact of cash transfers: the case of cash aid in rural Malawi

    Munich Re, 2007
    This paper analyses the impact of the Dowa Emergency Cash Transfer (DECT) programme in Dowa, Malawi, on the local economy. The programme consisted of cash transfers to households over a duration of five months. Transfers were adjusted to household size and changes in staple food prices. According to the authors, the programme was a success as:
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    Conditional cash transfers: why targeting and conditionalities could fail

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007
    This International Poverty Centre paper advocates a universal income grant as a foundation for basic economic security. Its approach views targeting and conditionalities as both unnecessary and counter-productive.
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    New thinking needed to address the rural employment crisis

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    A further 106 million people will have joined the rural labour force in the developing world by 2015. What work will they find and where? Can wages rise enough to allow people to escape poverty? Can enough additional jobs be created in rural areas or must more people migrate to cities?
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    Evaluation study on appropriate models of livelihood strategies for social protection in Zambia

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2007
    Due to serious deterioration of socio-economic conditions in Zambia, the government is considering the adoption of a national Social Protection Strategy. This report examines Zambian and international livelihood approaches that target low capacity and incapacitated households. It provides the following:
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    Reforming cash-based social assistance in Serbia

    Oxford Policy Management, 2007
    The Government of Serbia intends to increase the number of poor who are covered by social assistance and to better target cash transfers to the poor. This briefing note summarises key findings on the opportunities of reform of two main cash benefits; child allowances and material support for low income households (MOP). Key points that emerge from programme evaluations include:
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    Focused targeting against poverty: evidence from Tunisia

    Développement, Institutions & Analyses de Long terme, 2006
    This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. This method is based on estimation methods that focus on the poor.
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    Social protection and cash transfers in Uganda: frequently asked questions on cash transfers

    Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2007
    This brief attempts to answer some of the most frequently asked questions about the cash transfer scheme piloted by Uganda’s Ministry of Gender Labor and Social Development (MGLSD), with funding support from UK’s Department for International Development (DFID). These include:

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