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The role of targeting in service delivery to vulnerable populations – the FANRPAN Household Vulnerability Index (HVI) - a synthesis of three country reports
Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2009The objective of the Household Vulnerability Index (HVI) pilot study, conducted in Lesotho, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, was to further develop and test the HVI as a statistical tool for quantifying household vulnerability resulting from shocks such as HIV and AIDS. Key outputs from the study were a refined method for constructing the HVI and a computerised tool for its computation.DocumentPredicted poverty impacts of expanding the Community Work Program me in South Africa: an analysis of income poverty and inequality
Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2012The Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS), which guarantees low-skilled work to poor, unemployed individuals and in the process contributes to the creation of productive community assets and services.DocumentAn analysis of the national budget: allocation for the ultra poor
Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2011This dialogue report provides a view of poverty in Bangladesh. The country has been performing well from the growth perspective in the recent past as GDP growth rate has been on average of 5.8% per year during 2000-2010.DocumentRethinking poverty: report on the world social situation 2010
Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2010This report on the world social situation seeks to contribute to a rethinking poverty and its eradication. The paper affirms the urgent need for a strategic shift away from the market fundamentalist thinking towards more sustainable development- and equity-oriented policies appropriate to national circumstances.DocumentSocial transfers: a critical strategy to meet the MDGs
HelpAge International, 2010Non-contributory pensions enable poor older people to provide for their future and the future of their families. Alongside other social transfer schemes, pensions are now being seen to help reduce old age and intergenerational poverty, and have improved income security, access to education, health status and gender equality across other age groups.DocumentSocial issues under economic transformation and integration in Vietnam, Volume 1
Vietnam Development Forum, 2008Fast growth and integration has intensified social problems in Vietnam. New problems have also arisen. Rapidly urbanising areas are experiencing issues with street children, prostitution, and HIV/AIDS epidemic transmission. Nationally there are problems in the education system and social welfare, rising inequality, and in elderly populations.DocumentAssessing Honduras’ CCT programme PRAF, Programa de Asignación Familiar: the expected and unexpected realities
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2008Over the past ten years there has been an increase in the use of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes in Latin America. One initiative in Honduras, the PRAF (Programa de Asignación Familiar or Family Allowance Programme), has been running for eighteen years.DocumentCan all cash transfers reduce inequality?
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007This one-page document examines the impact of three Latin American Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programmes providing cash transfers to poor families, conditioned on children’s school attendance and regular medical checks-ups.DocumentDisparity, deprivation and discrimination in rural India
Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2007Despite the good performance of India's economy in recent years, disadvantaged groups such as the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) face both higher incidence and intensity of poverty than other groups.DocumentInnocenti Social Monitor 2006: understanding child poverty in South-Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2006This study examines child poverty in the 20 countries of South-Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (SEE/CIS). It is designed to stimulate effective policy responses and action in these countries towards the decisive improvement of children’s lives.Pages
