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Searching with a thematic focus on Livelihoods, Livelihoods social protection, Cash transfers in South Africa

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    Make childhood poverty history: id21 insights, issue 56

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    About 600 million children worldwide are growing up in absolute poverty. Over ten million children under five years of age die every year. Nearly one billion children will be growing up with impaired mental development by 2020. The articles in this issue of id21 insights argue that policy needs to be more sensitive to the ways in which it may lead to or perpetuate childhood poverty.
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    Cash transfers: to condition or not to condition?

    Eldis Gateway to Development and Environment Information, 2009
    In response to the recent food crisis and global financial crisis, the G-20 countries and the World Bank announced increased spending on social protection programmes, including cash-based systems.
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    Rural poor in South Africa face difficulty accessing social protection

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Illness can make already poor households poorer due to the costs of treatment and lost livelihoods. South Africa has introduced social protection measures to reduce the risks of such livelihood shocks, or help households cope better. But some of the poorest and most vulnerable groups are unable to access treatment for long-term illnesses.
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    Do cash transfers enable the very poor to save?

    Oxford Policy Management, 2008
    Experiences from around show that building poor people’s capacities to accumulate assets for the long term is central to poverty reduction. In this process, household savings play a particularly significant role. Contrary to what one might assume, evidence increasingly points to the fact that poor people are able to and do save.
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    REBA case study brief

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2008
    Cash transfers are increasingly being used to address hunger and vulnerability in Sub Saharan Africa – often as an alternative to food aid. Such interventions have been informed by different models of social protection.
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    Is there a rationale for conditional cash transfers for children in South Africa?

    School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2008
    This paper assesses the rationale behind Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) in South Africa. It looks at evidence of the reach and impact of major CCT programmes, particularly in Latin America, and the Child Support Grant (CSG) in South Africa.
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    The impact of unconditional cash transfers on nutrition: the South African Child Support Grant

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007
    This paper estimates the impact of South Africa’s Child Support Grant (CSG) on child nutrition as measured by child height-for-age. It finds that large dosages of CSG treatment early in life significantly boosts child height.
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    Labour supply responses to large social transfers: longitudinal evidence from South Africa

    Research Program in Development Studies, Princeton University, 2007
    This paper quantifies the labour supply responses of prime-aged individuals to changes in the presence of old-age pensioners in their households, using longitudinal data collected in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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    Reducing child poverty with cash transfers: a sure thing?

    Consortium for Street Children, 2006
    Can cash transfer programmes targeted at children be effective in reducing childhood poverty? This article examines the effectiveness of three types of cash transfer programmes.
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    Is cash the best way to assist poor and vulnerable people?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    In the face of chronic poverty, food insecurity and increasing HIV and AIDS in eastern and southern Africa, there is growing recognition of the importance of cash transfers for reaching vulnerable children and households. A variety of cash transfer schemes are being piloted. Should they be scaled-up?

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