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  Social security policy reform in post-apartheid South Africa: a focus on the basic income grant

  Centre for Civil Society, South Africa, 2004

  In 2000 a South African government committee recommended the introduction of a basic income grant (BIG), consisting of a grant of R100 per month for every South African citizen, regardless of age or income level.
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  Brazilian population ageing: differences in well-being by rural and urban areas

  Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada / Institute of Applied Economic Research, Brazil, 2002

  This paper examines the familial arrangements, health condition, economic activity and income of those aged over 60 in Brazil, using data from the General Household Surveys of 1981 and 1999.Its findings include that: although fertility and mortality are much higher in rural areas compared to urban ones, the proportion of the elderly population in the total population is about the same i
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  Children in need of care or in need of cash? Questioning social security provisions for orphans in the context of the South African AIDS pandemic

  Children's Institute, University of Cape Town, 2003

  The South African debate on social security provision for children in the context of the HIV/AIDS pandemic has focussed primarily on different mechanisms for giving cash grants to children who have been orphaned.
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  Poverty dynamics in rural Kenya and Madagascar

  BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004

  This paper is a micro-level attempt to empirically test hypotheses of economic growth by examining risk management, marginal returns on productive assets, and asset dynamics across settings distinguished by different agroecological and market access conditions, in Kenya and Madagascar.The author claims that macroeconomic growth theories are characterized by three different hypotheses, which hav
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  Unsustainable livelihoods, health shocks and urban chronic poverty: rickshaw pullers as a case study

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2004

  This study presents an analysis of rickshaw pullers in Bangladesh and draws evidence to suggest that there ought to better analysis given to labour intensive approaches to pro-poor growth policies. The main findings from this study are:that a rickshaw puller has a slight advantage over an agricultural labourer characterised by regularity of income flows.
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  Poverty and the welfare costs of risk associated with globalization

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This paper looks at the risks of globalisation and their impacts on poor households, by examining the variation in consumption expenditures across countries.
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  Scaling up Kudumbashree: collective action for poverty alleviation and women's empowerment

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This paper discusses the factors that enabled and constrained the scaling up of a multisectoral poverty alleviation program called Kudumbashree, initiated by the government of Kerala (GOK), India, in 1998 to eradicate poverty by 2008. Kudumbashree was characterised by the creation of community development societies (CDS) and neighbourhood groups (NHG).
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  Building budgets from below

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2004

  This paper investigates the degrees of freedom available to women (elected to self-government) to determine local and macro fiscal policies.
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  Pathways out of poverty in western Kenya and the role of livestock

  Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative, 2004

  This paper is based on a study exploring households' pathways into, and out of, poverty, with poverty defined from the communities' own perspective.
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  Coping with hunger and poverty in Ethiopia

  ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2004

  This paper is an examination of how people in Ethiopia are faring, twenty years after a major famine. The paper is comprised of interviews with individuals in different communities, interwoven with the authors’ conclusions and narrative.

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