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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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  Social protection and internal migration in Bangladesh: supporting the poorest

  Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2007

  How does migration exacerbate the difficulties that many people already face in accessing formal social protection, such as additional income or food? And how can migration itself facilitate access to an informal form of social protection for poorer households, even if this is risky and does not always lead to positive outcomes?
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  Non-contributory pensions and social protection

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2002

  This research paper critically examines the issue of non-contributory pension programmes. The researchers explore the impact, usefulness and sustainability of cash transfers for the old in various countries in Latin America and Africa.
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  Social transfers and chronic poverty: emerging evidence and the challenge ahead

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  Social transfers may offer an important option to tackle inequality and ensure that the benefits of growth reach those living in chronic poverty.
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  The impact of conditional cash transfers on human development outcomes: a review of evidence from PROGRESA in Mexico and some implications for policy debates in South and Southern Africa

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005

  This paper reflects on assessments of Mexico's Conditional Cash Transfer scheme (called PROGRESA) and draws comparisons with South Africa's Child Support Grant (CSG).
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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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  Safety nets and opportunity ladders: addressing vulnerability and enhancing productivity in South Asia

  Overseas Development Institute, 2002

  This paper aims to review literature on social protection measures in the context of India and Bangladesh. It explores whether some of the lessons learned from responses to vulnerability lend themselves to the notion of 'investment' in broader development goals.