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  Politics and the feasibility of initiatives on hunger and vulnerability

  Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2006

  This briefing suggests how key political factors for policy-making can be identified, and assesses their importance within the context of delivering social protection.
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  Cash benefits to disabled persons in Brazil: an analysis of the BPC continuous cash benefit programme

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006

  This paper presents an analysis of the Continuous Cash Benefit Programme (BCP, reflecting its Portuguese translation). Introduced in Brazil in 1993, it is the second largest non-contributary cash benefits programme in the country. Targetted at elderly or very poor individuals with disabilities, the transfer is equivalent to a monthly minimum wage.
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  Child support grants increase school enrolment in South Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Cash benefits for children are reducing the impact of poverty on school enrolment in South Africa. In KwaZulu-Natal, child support grants are helping children, particularly from the poorest families, to be educated. Families receiving such grants are more likely to send their children to school at earlier ages than other equally poor households. 
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  Social assistance in developing countries database

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2006

  This paper presents a searchable index of social assistance interventions in over 30 developing countries.
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  Gender and social protection

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  This paper aims to inform policy-makers on methods for incorporating gender issues in the development of social protection policies, strategies and programmes.Because women are more likely to be excluded from various social protection interventions, the interests of poor women can be served by improving access to social protection in the labour market and extending social insurance to informal
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  Targeting services towards the poor: a review of targeting mechanisms and their effectiveness

  Health Systems Resource Guide, 2006

  This chapter analyses the alternative approaches to targeting the poor that have been used in healthcare delivery and draws together evidence from a range of countries about their effectiveness.
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  Private school vouchers in Colombia

  John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2005

  This paper seeks to review the Plan de Ampliación de Cobertura de la Educación Secundaria (PACES) – a public-private partnership providing secondary school vouchers through a lottery system for entry into private schools aimed at the poorest third of the population.
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  Fighting hunger and poverty in Ethiopia

  Reliefweb, 2005

  Drought, poverty, famine and war are not new to Ethiopia. Much of Ethiopia's overseas aid has come in the form of humanitarian assistance rather than direct efforts to reduce poverty and elimate widespread hunger.
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  Being prepared for unexpected events can help prevent poverty

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Economic shocks and other unexpected events, such as family illness or crop failure, can cause poor households to fall deeper into poverty. To cope with such crises, households may cut down on non-food consumption in order to maintain their usual levels of food intake.
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  Reaching the poor with health, nutrition, and population services: what works, what doesn’t, and why

  World Bank, 2005

  This book, from the Reaching the Poor Program (RPP), provides eleven case studies that document how health, nutrition and population programmes have performed in reaching disadvantaged groups. The studies were commissioned in an effort to find better ways of ensuring that health, nutrition and population programmes benefit those that need them most.

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