Ghana administers multiple social protection programs. One of these, pensions provided by the Social Security and … National Insurance Trust, has a long history, but others-the Ghana School Feeding Programme, Labor-Intensive Public Works … program, Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty program, and National Health Insurance Scheme-have been introduced and …

safety nets and transfers can play in reducing poverty more rapidly in Tanzania. It presents the potential need and costs, to … strengthen the current system and develop a more unified national program, one which will have a greater impact on poverty levels … at reasonable cost, in line with the Government's poverty reduction strategy, known by the Swahili acronym MKUKUTA. The …

non poor households into poverty, and poor households into deeper poverty; and 3) to promote investment in human and … medium run and of interrupting the intergenerational cycle of poverty. This vision is fully consistent with the World Bank … programs help create the resilience, equity and access to jobs and opportunities essential to save lives, reduce poverty and …

accelerate poverty reduction in the medium to long term?; (ii) which groups and aspects of poverty will it make sense to target …-riding objective of both the government and its development partners is to reduce the high levels of poverty and inequality that … expenditure on social safety nets. Chapter two examines the dynamics of poverty in Lesotho and the characteristics of the major …

accelerate poverty reduction in the medium to long term?; (ii) which groups and aspects of poverty will it make sense to target …-riding objective of both the government and its development partners is to reduce the high levels of poverty and inequality that … expenditure on social safety nets. Chapter two examines the dynamics of poverty in Lesotho and the characteristics of the major …

transfer programs in reducing poverty and assesses how well they are placed both to address the possible social impact of the …

- programs with the following objectives: 1) alleviation of chronic poverty; 2) help to the poor in coping with the worst forms … of shocks and transient poverty; and 3) promotion of human development for long-term poverty alleviation. This note aims … and vulnerable populations. This note highlights two messages: first, it identifies gaps in the current poverty reduction …

analyzes the impact of those reforms on poverty using micro-level simulations based on the most recent household consumption …