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Searching with a thematic focus on Aid and debt, Livelihoods, Livelihoods social protection, Cash transfers

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    From social safety net to social policy? The role of conditional Cash transfers in welfare state Development in Latin America

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2009
    Since the early 1990s, conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have been adopted by countries across Latin America as central elements of their poverty reduction strategies. CCTs share three components in common: a cash transfer, a targeting mechanism, and conditionality.
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    Helping South Asia cope better with natural disasters: the role of social protection

    Development Policy Review, 2007
    This article reviews major cash transfers to households as a mean of social protection in a number of Asian countries. Looking at Turkey, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Pakistan in particular, the author indicates the role which the World Bank has played as a post-disaster donor in those countries, noticing the positive impact of this support on short-term food security and long-term recovery.
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    Social protection in Africa: where next?

    Centre for Social Protection, 2010
    Has social protection in sub-Saharan Africa lost its way? Many countries now have social protection strategies. Emergency cash transfers have displaced or complemented food aid, some large-scale programmes have been introduced, others have been consolidated.
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    Electronic delivery of social cash transfers: lessons learned and opportunities for Africa

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2010
    Delivery of cash transfers typically involves a compromise between the cost of reaching recipients literally at the door of their homes, and the savings from providing them at a central point to which recipients must travel to receive their benefit.
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    Foreign assistance and political market imperfections in post-conflict countries

    Centre for Developing-Area Studies, McGill University, 2009
    This paper notes that post-conflict countries face enormous development challenges and substantive policy consequences. It calls for appropriate responses for conflict affected nations such as financial assistance from donors, private investment and capacity building.
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    Are Cash Transfers a Suitable Alternative to Energy and Food Subsidies?

    Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2008
    As rising energy and food prices reached their peak, subsidies have come under increased scrutiny as a means of supporting the poor. Not only do they put a severe strain on government budgets, more often than not they miss their target owing to leakages, corruption and price distortions. An alternative to subsidies may consist in conditional cash transfers to the poor.
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    Assessing the impact of poverty reduction policies and programmes

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Since the late 1990s, the international aid system has become more focused on tackling poverty. The poverty reduction agenda, with its central themes of economic growth, social development and good governance, has been adopted by all the major donors. But is it working for poor people?
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    In the face of disaster: children and climate change

    International Save the Children Alliance, 2008
    Climate change is likely to lead to an increase in the frequency and intensity of natural disasters, and it will be the people in the poorest countries, especially children, who will bear the brunt.
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    Regional Evidence Building Agenda (REBA) Thematic Briefs

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2008
    This series of briefs provides a regional synthesis of findings of 12 thematic studies and 20 individual case studies of social transfer schemes undertaken by the Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme (RHVP) in southern Africa.
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    Cash transfers for Disaster Risk Reduction in Niger: a feasibility study

    Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2008
    This paper asks whether cash transfer programmes would be appropriate, cost-effective and feasible and whether, as part of a Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) strategy, they could have positive impacts on people’s livelihoods that would reduce their risk to future disasters. It is based on the results of research conducted in Niger in 2008.

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