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  Social risk management: a new conceptual framework for social protection and beyond

  R. Holzmann, S. Jørgensen / World Bank, 2000

  This paper, published by the World Bank, examines the concepts of social protection and risk management. It argues that social protection should be redefined as public interventions to assist individuals, households, and communities better manage risk, and to provide support to the critically poor.
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  Social protection sector strategy: from safety net to springboard

  R. Holzmann, S. Jørgensen, C. Allison, A. Dar / World Bank, 2003

  This strategy paper, published by the World Bank, traces the history of the Bank’s activities in the social protection sector, outlines a new framework emphasising the role of social protection in helping people to manage risks, and sets out the implications of this framework.
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  Toward a conflict sensitive poverty reduction strategy: lessons from a retrospective analysis

  World Bank, 2005

  This report aims to determine how causes and consequences of violent conflict can best be addressed within a country’s poverty reduction program. It is based on a a retrospective analysis of the poverty reduction strategy (PRS) experience in nine conflict affected countries namely, Bosnia-Herzegovina (BIH), Burundi, Cambodia, Chad, Georgia, Nepal, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Sri Lanka.
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  The inter-generational persistence of child labor

  M. Emerson, A. Portela Souza / World Bank, 2005

  This study explores whether using child labour to avoid poverty can cause it to persist through generations of families, using data from household surveys.
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  Measuring empowerment in practice: structuring analysis and framing indicators

  R. Alsop, N. Heinsohn / World Bank, 2005

  This paper proposes a framework for measuring empowerment (ME) comprising three core concepts: agency, opportunity structure, and degree of empowerment. In this regard, it defines empowerment as a person’s capacity to transform choices into desired actions and outcomes.
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  Measuring empowerment in practice: structuring analysis and framing indicators

  R. Alsop, N. Heinsohn / World Bank, 2005

  The definition of empowerment used in this paper is a person's capacity to make choices and transform these choices into desired actions and outcomes. The extent to which a person is empowered is influenced by personal agency (the capacity to make a purposive choice) and opportunity structure (the institutional context in which choice is made).
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  Innovations in health service delivery: the corporatization of public hospitals

  A.S. Preker, A. Harding / World Bank, 2003

  This document contains the introduction and first chapter of a World Bank book on recent trends in the reform of public hospitals, focusing on organisational changes such as increased managerial autonomy and “corporatisation” (transforming hospital bureaucracies into corporations so that they are exposed to market-like pressures).
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  The perversity of preferences: GSP and developing country trade policies, 1976-2000

  C. Özden, E. Reinhardt / World Bank, 2005

  The aim of this paper is to contribute to the ongoing debate on ways to integrate the developing countries into the world trading system and to lower their trade barriers.
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  Inequality and poverty in the CIS7, 1989-2002

  J. Falkingham / World Bank, 2003

  This paper, published by the World Bank, examines the impact of a decade of transition on living standards and welfare in seven of the poorest republics of the former Soviet Union – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan (known as the CIS-7). It finds that income inequality, which was low prior to independence, is now worse than in the United States.
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  Health care financing for rural and low-income populations: the role of communities in resource mobilization and risk sharing

  A.S. Preker, G. Carrin, F. Diop, D. Dror / World Bank, 2002

  This book, published by the World Bank, looks at ways of mobilising resources for health care for people in the rural areas and informal urban sector of low and middle-income countries, focusing on community financing schemes. Countries covered include Senegal, Rwanda, India and Thailand.

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