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  The social and economic impact of South Africa’s social security system

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This study evaluates the social and economic impacts of South Africa's State Old Age Pensions (SOAP), Disability Grants (DG), Child Support Grants (CSG), Care Dependency Grants (CDG), Foster Care Grants (FCG) and Grants-in-Aid (GIA).
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  Equity in educational expenditures: can government subsidies help?

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper examines government education subsidy schemes in Zambia. It asks the following questions:do resources allocated by the central authority actually reach intended recipients?
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  Poverty alleviation through geographic targeting: how much does disaggregation help?

  World Bank, 2004

  Using recently completed poverty maps for Cambodia, Ecuador, and Madagascar, the authors simulate the impact on poverty of transferring an exogenously given budget to geographically defined subgroups of the population according to their relative poverty status.The authors findings include:that there are large gains to be achieved from targeting smaller administrative units, such as dist
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  Identification of the poor: flaws in government surveys

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2004

  This article challenges the basis of poverty indicators being used to determine the levels "Below the Poverty Line" (BPL) in Madhya Pradesh, India.
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  Valuing children, valuing parents

  ATD Fourth World, 2004

  This paper is the English translation of Precieux enfants, precieux parents published in November 2003. The paper is a response to the European Union's commitment to fight child poverty, and discusses parents and children living in extreme poverty.
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  Social security for children in the context of AIDS: questioning the state's response

  Medical Research Council, South Africa, 2004

  This paper argues that the existing state security provision is not a sufficient mechanism to support poor orphans and vulnerable children.
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  Chance, change, and choice in Africa's drylands

  Center for International Forestry Research, 2004

  This paper focuses on policy dimensions in improving the livelihoods of the inhabitants of Africa’s drylands, who account for an estimated 40% of the continents population.
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  How does poverty affect migration choice?: a review of literature

  Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2003

  This paper takes a sustainable livelihoods approach to understanding the relationship between migration and poverty, and it explores the effects of poverty on people’s decision and ability to migrate.A livelihood approach to poverty and migration emphasises that: whilst migration does occur in response to crisis for some, it is also a central livelihood strategy for many people in the face of p
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  Social security policy reform in post-apartheid South Africa: a focus on the basic income grant

  Centre for Civil Society, South Africa, 2004

  In 2000 a South African government committee recommended the introduction of a basic income grant (BIG), consisting of a grant of R100 per month for every South African citizen, regardless of age or income level.
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  Brazilian population ageing: differences in well-being by rural and urban areas

  Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada / Institute of Applied Economic Research, Brazil, 2002

  This paper examines the familial arrangements, health condition, economic activity and income of those aged over 60 in Brazil, using data from the General Household Surveys of 1981 and 1999.Its findings include that: although fertility and mortality are much higher in rural areas compared to urban ones, the proportion of the elderly population in the total population is about the same i

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