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  Non-contributory pensions – costly luxury or weapon against poverty?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Although the incidence of old age poverty in developing countries is high and set to increase further there is considerable resistance to establishing non-contributory pension programmes. It is often argued that they are unaffordable, that households can provide adequate support to older people and that there are many more pressing development challenges.
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  Food-for-work for poverty reduction and the promotion of sustainable land use: can it work?

  Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2004

  This paper assesses the potential of Food-For-Work (FFW) programs to reduce poverty and promote sustainable land use in the longer run. The study uses empirical evidence and an applied bio-economic farm household model in northern Ethiopia.The paper concludes that FFW projects have the potential of contributing to long term development in economies characterised by imperfect markets.
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  Are the poor too poor to demand health insurance?

  Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2004

  Community based micro-insurance schemes are increasingly being seen as a solution for meeting the health care challenges of the poor. Can they protect the poor from health related shocks? This paper provides a brief overview of community based micro-insurance schemes.
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  Multiple shocks and downward mobility: learning from the life histories of rural Ugandans

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2003

  This paper presents findings from research on chronic poverty in rural Uganda. The analysis builds on qualitative and quantitative livelihoods research undertaken in three districts, including in-depth life history interviews with the heads of nearly 25 households in 3 villages.
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  The politics of staying poor in Uganda

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2003

  This paper explores how political actors, processes, debates and institutions influence the reduction and reproduction of chronic poverty in Uganda.
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  The poverty targeting efficiency of public works programs: an application of poverty mapping in Malawi

  Poverty Mapping, 2002

  This paper attempts to evaluate the usefulness of poverty mapping techniques for the targeting of public works programmes.
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  Post offices, pension and computers: new opportunities for combining growth and social protection in weakly-integrated rural areas?

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2003

  India’s efforts in targeting a wide range of social protection measures towards different categories of poor people might be a model for other countries as they prepare their own Poverty Reduction Strategies.
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  Social protection and pro-poor agricultural growth: what scope for synergies?

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2004

  Social protection (SP) and livelihood promotion have conventionally been handled by different departments within governments and donor organisations.
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  HIV/AIDS and agriculture: impacts and responses: case studies from Namibia, Uganda and Zambia

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003

  How can countries support increasing numbers of vulnerable households? What can be done to reverse the trend towards increasing destitution?
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  Livelihoods, chronic conflict and humanitarian response: a synthesis of current practice

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2003

  A large part of the populations of several countries (including the more remote and agriculturally ‘difficult’ areas) live in situations of chronic conflict or political instability.

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