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  The impact of a conditional education subsidy on school enrolment in Colombia

  Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, 2005

  This study estimates the short-term impact on school enrolment of a large welfare programme in Colombia, Familias en Acción. The programme offers a monthly subsidy to eligible mothers conditional on their child(ren) attending school.The study finds that the programme has been effective at increasing enrolment, particularly amongst 14- to 17-year-olds, in both urban and rural areas.
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  On assessing pro-poorness of government programmes: international comparisons

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2005

  This paper proposes a new "Pro-Poor Policy (PPP)" index, which measures the pro-poorness of government programmes, as well as basic service delivery in education, health and infrastructure.
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  Strategic gender interventions and poverty reduction: principles and practice

  Gender Mainstreaming Programme in Asia, 2004

  This manual has been developed to support the formulation and implementation of poverty reduction projects in Asia. It focuses on identifying strategic gender initiatives to help enhance women’s agency in the household and community.
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  Insurance for the poor?

  Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 2005

  This paper discusses the scope for extending insurance to the poor in Latin America and Carribbean (LAC) countries. It highlights the need to reduce risk and its consequences, as current systems do not provide sufficient protection. On this basis, it argues that insurance provision to the poor has a role to play within a comprehensive system of protection against risk.
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  Impact of sustainable livelihoods approaches on poverty reduction

  Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Document Repository, 2005

  This paper identifies specific examples where applications of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) had succeeded in reducing rural poverty.The study focused on whether the 12 country cases studies (in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Gambia, Honduras, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Yemen, and Zambia) achieved positive changes in indicators of poverty reduction such as increa
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  Prospects for basic income in developing countries: a comparative analysis of welfare regimes in the south

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005

  This paper explores the prospects for future pro-poor reforms to welfare regimes in the south through an analysis of the development of Southern welfare regimes in the past.
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  Microfinance and the state: exploring areas and structures of collaboration

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2005

  This paper reviews the performance of formal institutional channels of microfinance and discusses the emergence of new forms of collaboration in the delivery of microfinance services. Some pertinent issues in regulatory policies and institutional arrangements that can help the state effectively and in a sustainable manner leverage the available resources for the poor are also dealt with.
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  Politics and the PRS approach in Southern Africa

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005

  This presentation reviews the political dimensions of the PRSP approach in the Southern Africa sub-region.
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  Education choices in Mexico: using a structural model and a randomised experiment to evaluate Progresa

  Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, 2005

  This paper evaluates a large welfare programme in rural Mexico called Progresa, whose main aim is to improve the process of human capital accumulation in the poorest communities by providing cash transfers conditional on specific types of behaviour in three key areas targeted by the programme: nutrition, health and education.The aim of this paper is to analyse the impact of monetary incentives
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  Thinking about the politics of social protection in Africa: towards a conceptual and theoretical approach

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2005

  This paper examines how particular forms and types of politics shape policy responses on social protection in Africa, and also the political impacts and implications of adopting social protection policies.

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