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The role of fairness concerns in social protection and poverty reduction (Draft)
Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2004This article studies differing notions of fairness between external and local actors and how they affect social protection systems and poverty reduction initiatives. Within social protection systems, the authors define effectiveness as being related to targeting, while within poverty reduction initiatives, effectiveness relates to the extent to which relations are maintainted with poor people.DocumentShocks, sensitivity and resilience: tracking the economic impacts of environmental disaster on assets in Ethiopia and Honduras
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2006This paper analyses the asset dynamics of Ethiopian and Honduran households in the wake of severe environmental shocks. It also investigates the circumstances under which poor households are pushed into poverty traps from which recovery is not possible.DocumentBuffering inequalities: the safety net of extended families in Cameroon
Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program, Cornell University, 2004This paper investigates the role of extended family systems in buffering socioeconomic inequality in African societies, notably through fosterage of children across nuclear family units. Previous study has raised concerns that this support system would be likely to collapse under pressures of globalisation and economic crises.DocumentDrivers of escape and descent: changing household fortunes in rural Bangladesh
Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2004This paper gives an analysis of contrasting dynamics of poverty in rural Bangladesh. In using a livelihoods framework, the author contrasts the fortunes of households that ascend out of poverty, with those who have fallen into poverty.DocumentChronic poverty report 2004-2005
Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2004This major report from the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) examines what chronic poverty is and why it matters, who the chronically poor are, where they live, what causes poverty to be persistent and what should be done about it.DocumentMore for the poor is less for the poor: the politics of targeting
World Bank, 1997This World Bank study assesses the welfare properties of targeted income support transfers when a basic political feasibility condition is imposed on the levels of targeting and taxation. Both economists and political scientists have long recognised the possibility that targeting could undermine political support for redistribution and hence reduce the available budget.DocumentLiving on the boundary: institutional influences on the livelihoods of the extreme poor
Proshika, 2003This study, from Proshika, seeks to understand the livelihood conditions of the many different extremely poor people living in Bangladesh by analyzing their livelihood constraints and opportunities.DocumentIncidence analysis of public support to the private education sector in Côte d’Ivoire
World Bank, 2004This paper analyses the poverty impact of public subsidisation of private schools in Côte d’Ivoire. It attempts to assess how efficiently public spending is targeted to the poor by looking at who benefits from public expenditure on education in different income groups.DocumentEvaluating targeted cash transfer programs: a general equilibrium framework with an application to Mexico
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004This report focuses on the indirect and direct effects of transfer programmes.DocumentMicrofinance institutions in Nigeria: policy, practice and potentials
Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four, 2004This study examines the outreach performance of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Nigeria, based on a survey of ten major MFIs.Pages
