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• Blog Post

  Online learning about social protection, for everyone everywhere

  01 Jul 2020: Never has the need for social protection been greater.
• Document

  Sexuality and poverty synthesis report

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014

  This report synthesises learning from these audits and is part of a larger project that focuses on understanding the links between sexuality, gender plurality and poverty with the aim of improving socioeconomic policy and programming to support people marginalised because of their sexuality.
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  MGNREGA in Tamil Nadu: A Story of Success and Transformation?

  Wiley Online Library, 2014

  Social protection has emerged as a key driver of development policy at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is widely considered a ‘good thing’ that has the potential not only to alleviate poverty and vulnerability, but also to generate more transformative outcomes in terms of empowerment and social justice.
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  Social protection and wellbeing: Food security in Adivasi communities, Chhattisgarh, India

  Wellbeing and Poverty Pathways, University of Bath, 2014

  Despite economic growth, persistent levels of absolute poverty remain across the world. Social protection is an important response to this, guaranteeing a basic level of income support. The state of Chhattisgarh, India, provides an interesting model, as government commitment and people’s action combine to buttress food security in communities with historically high levels of disadvantage.
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  Labouring for global markets: Conceptualising labour agency in global production networks

  Elsevier, 2017

  This article starts with the recognition that labour has received less than its fair share of empirical and analytical attention in scholarship on global production networks. Little is known about how jobs for export markets fit into workers’ wider livelihoods strategies, or how workers react to new employment opportunities available to them.
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  Explaining low employment rates among older women in urban China

  Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, 2017

  In China, the employment rate among middle-aged and older urban residents is exceptionally low. For example, 27% of 55-64-year-old urban women were in work in 2013, compared to more than 50% in UK, Thailand and Philippines.
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  Transitions in late-life living arrangements and socio-economic conditions of the elderly in Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2017

  Middle East and North Africa’s demographic trends reveal together a growing ageing population and an exceptional growth of the youth population. Increasing elderly population leads to significant consequences for the cost and organisation of health systems.
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  Governance of-non-state social protection initiatives: implications for addressing gendered vulnerability to poverty in Uganda

  Partnership for African Social and Governance Research, 2016

  Non-state actors (NSAs) are offering social protection services in Uganda to address vulnerabilities associated with poverty. Information is limited on their adequacy and efficacy and how their governance mechanisms address gender concerns.
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  Provision of social protection services by non-state actors in Nyanza Region Kenya : assessing women empowerment

  Partnership for African Social and Governance Research, 2015

  In Kenya, women are more likely than men to suffer poverty and its associated vulnerabilities, mainly because they are excluded from decision-making on economic issues, they have limited access to the factors of production, particularly land, and traditional customs allocate them undervalued roles and constrain their voice and mobility.
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  Young women’s household bargaining power in marriage and parenthood in Ethiopia

  Young Lives, 2017

  In Ethiopian government policy, marriage under the age of 18 is considered ‘early marriage’ or ‘child marriage’ and is categorised as a harmful traditional practice. Efforts to tackle harmful traditional practices in the country have been made in the name of gender equality.

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