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Searching with a thematic focus on Livelihoods, Livelihoods social protection, Poverty, Social protection in Indonesia

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    Developing Asia’s Pension Systems and Old-Age Income Support

    Asian Development Bank Institute, 2012
    Old-age income support is becoming an issue of growing importance throughout Asia. This is especially true in East and Southeast Asia. This paper provides a broad overview of the current state of pension systems in the People’s Republic of China, Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Viet Nam.
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    Pensions at a glance

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2012
    In addition to giving insights on the sustainability of public pensions and the pressures they face with the mounting demographic issues, Pensions at a Glance – Asia/Pacific Edition 2011 aims to enhance interaction between OECD member countries and non-member Asia/Pacific countries and economies.
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    Ageing Asia’s looming pension crisis

    Asian Development Bank, 2009
    Due to population ageing, weakening of family-based support, and related factors, old-age income support is becoming an issue of growing importance throughout Asia. This paper provides a broad overview of the current state of the pension systems in eight East and Southeast Asian countries, identifying their major structural weaknesses, and suggesting some specific policy directions for them.
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    Social security pension reforms in Thailand and Indonesia: unsustainable and unjust

    Overseas Development Group, East Anglia University (UEA) School of Development Studies, 2008
    Historically, both Thailand and Indonesia have had relatively limited social security programmes, in terms of labour-force coverage and public expenditure. In the last decade, both have embarked on apparently ambitious reforms to move towards a more embracing system.
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    Multidimensional poverty in Indonesia: trends, interventions and lesson learned

    Global Institute for Asian Regional Integration, Waseda University, 2008
    This paper describes the current state of multidimensional poverty in Indonesia and reviews the characteristics of major programs designed to address multidimensional poverty, their implementation problems and impacts. It also details the lessons from the Indonesian experience which can be applied to future targeted social protection programs to address human security in Indonesia
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    Living in the background: home-based women workers and poverty persistence

    Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2007
    This paper examines the relationship between home-based work and persistent poverty in certain parts of South and South East Asia. The author argues that an expanded conception of social protection is needed if poverty prevention initiatives are to be effective in the case of home-based women workers.
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    Where is education in the conditional cash transfers of education?

    UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2006
    This paper examines the educational effects of conditional cash transfers (CCT) for education. The study finds that based on the evidence reviewed in this paper, there is very limited support for the conclusion that CCTs are effective educational instruments, in particular with regards to their ability to increase learning.
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    Social protection in the informal economy: home-based women workers and outsourced manufacturing in Asia

    UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2002
    This paper draws on surveys carried out in five Asian countries (India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand, and Philippines) where home-based work (HBW) is widespread. It examines characteristics of home workers and, in particular, conditions of women as home workers.
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    Recovery from the tsunami disaster: poverty reduction and sustainable development through microfinance

    Grameen Foundation USA, 2005
    This paper reports the findings of a team of specialists from the Grameen Foundation USA, deployed in the aftermath of the Boxing Day tsunami to assess conditions facing the poor and the effects of the disaster on the provision of microfinance.
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    A lecture on the political economy of targeted safety nets

    World Bank, 2005
    This paper sheds light on the importance of political support towards designing safety net policies. In drawing on the crisis safety net programs in Indonesia from 1998 to 2000, the author reviews 5 major issues namely, models of electoral politics, safety ropes vs.

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