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  Vulnerability: a micro perspective

  Department of Economics, University of Oxford, 2005

  Vulnerability to severe hardship is part of life in developing countries. This paper explores the links between risk, vulnerability and poverty, from a micro-level perspective. It examines risk and vulnerability both as a central part of poor people's lives and as a cause of poverty.
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  Challenges and experiences in extending social protection

  Conferencia Interamericana de Seguridad Social / Inter-American Conference on Social Security, Mexico, 2005

  Extending social protection to groups that are economically weak or groups that have been excluded from social protection is a topic of permanent concern for governments of almost every developing country.
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  Mainstreaming safety nets in the social protection policy agenda: a new vision or the same old perspective?

  Agricultural and Development Economics Division, FAO, 2005

  While arguing that social protection has potential, this article alerts that social protection has to face institutional, policy and operational challenges.
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  The equality predicament: report on the world social situation 2005

  UN, 2005

  This report traces the trends and patterns in economic and non-economic aspects of inequality and examines their causes and consequences across and within regions and countries.
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  Influence of social institutions on inequality in China

  Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organisation, Tokyo, 2005

  This study analyses the impact of changes in social institutions, i.e. in the informal and formal social security system, on income inequality in China.
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  Reducing poverty by tackling social exclusion

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  Social exclusion deprives people of choices and opportunities to escape from poverty and denies them a voice to claim their rights. This policy paper describes how DFID intends to build upon the work it has undertaken tackling social exclusion in Latin America and Asia, and ways it can enhance the work is has recently begun in Africa.
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  A rights-based approach to poverty: the South African experience

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2005

  This paper, presented at the International Conference: The Many Dimensions of Poverty (Brazil, 2005) uses a rights-based approach to address the problems of poverty.
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  A framework for scaling up poverty reduction, with illustrations from South Asia

  Department of Economics [Cornell University], 2005

  This paper develops a framework for thinking about the policy challenge of scaling up small scale interventions - both governmental and non-governmental - that address poverty reduction. The framework sees scaling up as addressing different components of market failure, government failure and civil society failure.
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  Inclusion and exclusion in South Asia: the role of religion

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2004

  This paper, presented for the 2004 Human Development Report, argues that the building of inclusive societies requires the secularity of states. All other forms of state are exclusionary, particularly theocracies.
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  School feeding programs: why they should be scaled up now

  United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2004

  This brief discusses the effectiveness of school feeding programmes, how they address constraints to education, and how they can be scaled up.The paper argues that in-school feeding reduces short-term hunger; they provide micronutrient-fortified meals early in the school day; food can be used in several ways to address access issues; it can address health and nutrition needs of school-age child

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