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  Children in need of care or in need of cash? Questioning social security provisions for orphans in the context of the South African AIDS pandemic

  Children's Institute, University of Cape Town, 2003

  The South African debate on social security provision for children in the context of the HIV/AIDS pandemic has focussed primarily on different mechanisms for giving cash grants to children who have been orphaned.
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  Poverty dynamics in rural Kenya and Madagascar

  BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004

  This paper is a micro-level attempt to empirically test hypotheses of economic growth by examining risk management, marginal returns on productive assets, and asset dynamics across settings distinguished by different agroecological and market access conditions, in Kenya and Madagascar.The author claims that macroeconomic growth theories are characterized by three different hypotheses, which hav
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  Unsustainable livelihoods, health shocks and urban chronic poverty: rickshaw pullers as a case study

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2004

  This study presents an analysis of rickshaw pullers in Bangladesh and draws evidence to suggest that there ought to better analysis given to labour intensive approaches to pro-poor growth policies. The main findings from this study are:that a rickshaw puller has a slight advantage over an agricultural labourer characterised by regularity of income flows.
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  Scaling up Kudumbashree: collective action for poverty alleviation and women's empowerment

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This paper discusses the factors that enabled and constrained the scaling up of a multisectoral poverty alleviation program called Kudumbashree, initiated by the government of Kerala (GOK), India, in 1998 to eradicate poverty by 2008. Kudumbashree was characterised by the creation of community development societies (CDS) and neighbourhood groups (NHG).
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  Tamil Nadu’s midday meal scheme where assumed benefits score over hard data

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2004

  This paper examines Tamil Nadu's noon nutritious meal scheme, India's largest in terms of the number of beneficiaries covered.
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  Conditional cash transfers, schooling and child labor: micro-simulating Bolsa Escola

  Departamento de Economia, Pontificía Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2003

  Brazil's Bolsa Escola scheme was established in 2001 and provides a means-tested cash transfer to poor households, on the condition that children in the household attend school.
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  Building budgets from below

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2004

  This paper investigates the degrees of freedom available to women (elected to self-government) to determine local and macro fiscal policies.
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  Gender, education and child labour in Egypt

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2004

  This study analyses existing literature on the education and gender aspects of child labour. It explores the linkages between child labour, gender and education and highlights areas for further research and programme/policy interventions.The paper looks at the causes of child labour, its prevalence and distribution in Egypt.
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  Pathways out of poverty in western Kenya and the role of livestock

  Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative, 2004

  This paper is based on a study exploring households' pathways into, and out of, poverty, with poverty defined from the communities' own perspective.
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  Coping with hunger and poverty in Ethiopia

  ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2004

  This paper is an examination of how people in Ethiopia are faring, twenty years after a major famine. The paper is comprised of interviews with individuals in different communities, interwoven with the authors’ conclusions and narrative.

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