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    Social protection and cash transfers to strengthen families affected by HIV and AIDS

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2012
    Social protection in the form of cash transfers is receiving increasing recognition as an important part of a comprehensive AIDS response. The urgency of cash assistance for food purchases is underscored by emerging evidence on the interactions between nutrition and AIDS disease progression.
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    The impact of economic resource transfers to women versus men: a systematic review

    Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre, 2012
    What is the evidence of the impact on family well-being of giving economic resources to women relative to the impact of giving them to men? This review is of interest to policy-makers and funders in developed and developing countries, given the recent growth in the number of poverty alleviation transfer programs that implicitly or explicitly designate women as transfer recipients.
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    The Social Protection Index: assessing results for Asia and the Pacific

    Asian Development Bank, 2013
    Strengthening social protection represents a priority contribution to achieving inclusive growth, one of the three main pillars of the Asian Development Bank (ADB’s) Strategy 2020. This report analyses comprehensive 2009 data on government social protection programmes in 35 countries in Asia and the Pacific.
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    Tailoring social protection to small island developing states: lessons learned from the Caribbean

    Social Protection and Labor, World Bank, 2013
    Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have made significant commitment to address the needs of the vulnerable, as reflected by their level of spending, and the numerous safety net programs, labour market interventions, and insurance schemes. Nevertheless gaps remain, as many vulnerable groups are underserved and the systems show limited responsiveness to shocks.
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    Population ageing in Ghana: research gaps and the way forward

    Journal of Aging Research, 2010
    Although Ghana can still be classified as a having youthful population, reductions in fertility and mortality have resulted in increase in both the proportion and absolute number of elderly population. With the proportion of the elderly population currently at 7.2 percent, Ghana has one of the highest proportions of persons aged 60+ years in sub-Saharan Africa.
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    Beyond food security: transforming the PSNP in Ethiopia for the well-being of children

    Young Lives, 2012
    Using Young Lives survey and qualitative data collected in 2006 and 2009 among rural households and children in Ethiopia, this paper investigates the possible impacts of the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) on children’s well-being and recommends child-focused social protection that goes beyond the PSNP.
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    Pension coverage in China and the expansion of the New Rural Social Pension Scheme

    HelpAge International, 2013
    In just over 60 years, the pension system in China has changed from a residual policy issue in the shadow of major economic reform, to one that is now intrinsically linked to socio-economic transformation in China and underpins the transition from an export-driven to a consumption-based economy.
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    Social assistance and successful advocacy in Georgia: A social protection case study

    Oxfam, 2012
    Georgia, a lower middle-income country with a population of 4.5 million, gained independence in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Despite steady economic growth since 2004, living standards have failed to improve. A large percentage of people remain poor. Officially a third of the population live in poverty, with 15 percent of these living in ‘extreme poverty’.
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    The changing well-being of Thai elderly: An update from the 2011 Survey of Older Persons in Thailand

    Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2013
    Population ageing and the well-being of older persons are major emerging challenges for families, communities and government in Thailand as in much of Asia.
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    How best to measure pension adequacy

    Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economic and Related Disciplines (STICERD), LSE, 2013
    Though the main benchmark used to assess pension reforms continues to be the expected resulting fall in future government spending, the impact of policy changes on pension adequacy is increasingly coming to the fore.

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