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  Transformative social protection

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  This paper, published by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), discusses the concept of social protection and the ways in which social protection policy has worked in practice, drawing on examples from Uganda.It claims that social protection has been popularly perceived as “social welfare programmes for poor countries”, consisting of costly targeted transfers to economically inac
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  Income risk and welfare status of rural households in Nigeria: Ekiti state as a test case

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This paper examines the impact of income risk on the level of well-being of rural households in Nigeria. Income risk is defined as the risks associated with variability in income; well-being is defined in terms of the level of utility reached by a given individual. This level is a function of goods and services that the individual consumes.
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  Livelihoods (un)employment and social safety nets: reflections from recent studies in KwaZulu-Natal

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This paper considers some methodological and substantive issues in the fields of livelihoods, unemployment and social safety nets in South Africa. This report focuses on the extent to which work and employment are reported in different types of surveys.
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  Innocenti Social Monitor 2004: the MONEE Project CEE/CIS/Baltic states

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2004

  This paper reviews four areas of child poverty and well-being in CEE, CIS and Baltic States, exploring links with issues such as economic growth, labour markets, migration and drugs use. It argues that a rights based approach must be taken to ensure inclusion, participation and redistribution of the benefits of economic progress.
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  Policy expectations and programme reality: the poverty reduction and labour market impact of two public works programmes in South Africa

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  This paper explores the contribution of public works to social protection in South Africa, drawing evidence from two case studies, the Gundo Lashu programme in Limpopo and the Zibambele programme in KwaZulu Natal.
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  Seasonal migration for livelihoods in India: coping, accumulation and exclusion

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  Seasonal and circular migration of labour for employment has become one of the most durable components of the livelihood strategies of people living in rural areas on India .This paper looks at why some groups within India have succeeded in entering accumulative migration pathways while others have been excluded. The author adopts a social exclusion and livelihoods approach in analysing the liv
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  The reach of the South African child support grant: evidence from KwaZulu-Natal

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  This article examines changes in social welfare policies in South Africa after Apartheid. The authors examine the government’s new Child Support Grant programme using data collected at a demographic surveillance site in KwaZulu-Natal to examine the effects of such policy changes.
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  Globalisation and social security in low-income countries: the case of Côte d’Ivoire

  Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa, 2003

  This paper argues that the impacts of globalisation have created new challenges for social security systems in developing countries, and looks at ways in which these systems could be redesigned in order to alleviate poverty and guarantee economic security.
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  Inequities in health and health care in India: can the poor hope for a respite?

  Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2003

  The poor are both more likely to be affected by poor health, and more adversely affected by it, since they are less likely to have insurance against the loss of income that results from illness. This paper examines the problem of limited access of the poor to healthcare in India.
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  Stories of targeting: process documentation of selecting the ultra poor for CFPR/TUP programme: process documentation

  Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, 2004

  This paper documents the targeting process used in selecting individuals by bringing together diverse strands of knowledge on poverty (indigenous, local, programmatic, and academic) in identifying and selecting beneficiaries.

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