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  Unemployment insurance in Chile

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

  Unemployment compensations are widely accepted within the framework of social security, but are not always desirable from an economic perspective because their existence somehow modifies labor market equilibrium and determines incentives that could lead to increasing unemployment rates.
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  Institutional issues in chronic poverty reduction, rural livelihoods and people's participation: a study of Paschim Medinipur district in the state of West Bengal, India

  Eldis Document Store, 2005

  The paper reports on a field study into the effectiveness of institutional processes to address anti-chronic poverty interventions in Paschim Medinipur district in the State of West Bengal in India.
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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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  Targeting and universalism in poverty

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005

  Does social policy aim at benefiting the whole of society or just a select group? This paper argues that policy regimes tend to lie somewhere between being universally beneficial and targetted at a specific group.
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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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  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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  Poverty and conservation: landscapes, people and power

  World Conservation Union, 2005

  This book focuses on conservation’s potential to contribute actively to long-term sustainable development and, more immediately, to poverty reduction. Conservation has, at times, contributed to local poverty by denying poor people control over and access to the natural resources that underpin their livelihoods.
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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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