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    Expanding lessons from a randomised impact evaluation of cash and food transfers in Ecuador and Uganda

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2015
    There is now substantial evidence that periodic cash transfers to poor households as a form of social protection, particularly when conditional on complementary investments in child schooling and health, can lead to substantial and sustained improvements in household welfare, household food security and child schooling.
  • Organisation

    POPPOV / Population and Poverty Research Network

    The PopPov network is a group of academic researchers, funders, and other stakeholders from around the globe that is interested in how population dynamics (population growth, decline, aging, etc.,) im
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    Age and gender effects on time discounting in a large scale cash transfer programme

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    Inter-temporal choice represents one of the most fascinating topics in economics. Understanding its determinants can provide vital in sight into decisions ranging from savings and financial investment to smoking, obesity and human capital accumulation.
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    India exclusion report 2013-14

    Centre for Equity Studies, 2014
    By consolidating and generating knowledge around exclusion, the India Exclusion Report seeks to inform public opinion and debate on these issues, and to influence the political class and policy makers towards more inclusive, just and equitable governance.It is hoped that the report will serve as a tool to support public action for the greater inclusion of disadvantaged and marginalised communit
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    Social programmes and job promotion for the BRICS Youth

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2014
    Besides scaling up and improving the operationalisation of the initiatives designed to offer credit, work opportunities and vocational training to the youth, the BRICS nations, like all the nations of the globe, are faced with the pressing duty of finding means of including the youth productively in the labour market, in ways that genuinely represent the ambitions of this stage in the lifecycle
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    Innocence lost: child marriage in a global context, with a focus on Malawi

    KidsRights Foundation, 2014
    Malawi has the eighth highest rate of child marriage in the world, with over half of girls marrying under the age of 18. It is one of the world’s poorest countries, with 61% of the population living below the poverty line.
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    Global AgeWatch Index 2015: insight report

    HelpAge International, 2015
    The Global AgeWatch Index assesses the factors determining the social and economic wellbeing of older people around the world. As well as global analysis, this year the Index is focusing on the regions, hearing from older people themselves and looking at the widely varying geographic trends. It also includes data on ageing in the BRICS countries.
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    KidsRights Foundation

    KidsRights promotes the wellbeing of very vulnerable children across the world and advocates the realisation of their rights.
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    Dalits and the post 2015 develoment agenda: addressing the hidden apartheid of millions will be key to the success of the SDGs

    Asia Dalit Rights Forum, 2015
    The world over it has been clearly demonstrated that economic progress and stages of development have little impact on the continuum of inequalities. Consequently, Dalits, constituting 260 million people worldwide with the majority residing in South Asia, have fallen off the wagon of progress.
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    Asia Dalit Rights Forum (ADRF)

    Asian Dalit Rights Forum as a collective of Dalit rights activists from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

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