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  Oxfam GB’s experience with cash for work: summaries of evaluations in Bangladesh, Uganda, Kenya, Afghanistan and Haiti

  Oxfam, 2005

  This paper gives an overview of Oxfam’s experience with cash for work programmes in five countries as part of their recovery programmes following natural disasters or conflicts.
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  Social safety nets for women

  United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2003

  The objective of this paper is to identify and evaluate whether gender issues were attended to in the design and implementation of the social safety net policies and programmes associated with the Asian economic crisis.
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  Social protection in the informal economy: home-based women workers and outsourced manufacturing in Asia

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2002

  This paper draws on surveys carried out in five Asian countries (India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand, and Philippines) where home-based work (HBW) is widespread. It examines characteristics of home workers and, in particular, conditions of women as home workers.
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  Shaping the future of social protection: access, financing and solidarity

  United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2006

  The starting point for this study is the principle that a rights-based approach should be used in framing public policy. The study therefore seeks to address the challenge of combining the ethical aspect of social rights with viable ways of strengthening citizens’ entitlement to such rights in highly inequitable and relatively poor societies.
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  Poverty and unemployment in South Africa

  National Labour and Economic Development Institute, South Africa, 2006

  Despite its status as a middle-income country, South Africa has significantly high levels of poverty and unemployment. This paper takes a critical look at the levels of poverty and unemployment in South Africa.
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  IDS In Focus Issue 1: Social Protection

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006

  Social protection has come a long way in a short time. Ten years ago, it was a new phrase for social safety nets, and was limited to interventions that provided short-term support to people lacking the capacity to cope on their own.
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  The impact of HIV /AIDS on the economy, livelihoods and poverty of Malawi

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2006

  This report analyses the impact of HIV/AIDS on people’s livelihoods in Malawi and on the overall socio-economic development of the country. Given the complex interplay between economic and non-economic factors in dealing with the long-term consequences of HIV/AIDS on economic growth and poverty, the report focuses on a few mitigating and aggravating factors, indicating how Malawi can cope
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  Agricultural rehabilitation: mapping the linkages between humanitarian relief, social protection and development

  Overseas Development Institute, 2006

  This paper addresses the question of how to support the livelihoods of rural people who have been affected by conflict.
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  Recent trends in resource sharing among the poor

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2005

  This paper provides a conceptual discussion of private transfers drawing on several related literatures and provides new empirical evidence regarding the significance of private transfers as a source of income. It summarises the theoretical literature drawing on several well-developed models of resource sharing between and within households that provide important insights into possible motives.
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  Participatory policy reform from a sustainable livelihoods perspective: review of concepts and practical experiences

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2002

  This paper argues that the development and application of tested strategies and institutional mechanisms to support the participation of the rural poor in policy making would facilitate the generation of policy frameworks to reduce poor people’s vulnerability and enable their access to the assets and services they require to pursue sustainable livelihoods.To aid the development of strategies an

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