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Social services delivery through community-based projects

McLeod, Dinah; Tovo, Maurizia - World Bank Group - 2001

services. While most of the projects surveyed deliver"traditional"services such as nutrition, maternal and child care, and …

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Can conditional cash transfer programs play a greater role in reducing child undernutrition?

Bassett, Lucy - World Bank Group - 2008

, coordinated, and leveraged to increase their impact on child undernutrition? How can best practices from nutrition interventions … to become an effective tool in nutrition policy and programming? The paper is organized as follows: section two defines … explores how best practices in nutrition could inform CCT design and section seven introduces redesigned and emerging CCTs …

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Child work in Zambia : a comparative study of survey instruments

Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Dar, Amit; Guarcello, Lorenzo; … - World Bank Group - 2002

The authors analyze child work in Zambia, applying two recent surveys, the Bank's Living Conditions Monitoring Survey (LCMS) of 1998, and the International Labour Organization's (ILO) Statistical Information and Monitoring Programme on Child Labour (SIMPOC) of 1999. The analysis aims at...

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How poor are the old? a survey of evidence from 44 countries

Whitehouse, Edward - World Bank Group - 2000

This paper surveys 11 international comparative studies of poverty, income distribution, and the elderly. Although it focuses on OECD economies, some 44 countries are covered. The paper addresses a series of questions. What level are the incomes of the elderly relative to the population as a...

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Redirecting resources to community based services : a concept paper

Fox, Louise; Gotestam, Ragnar - World Bank Group - 2003

A legacy of the command economy in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union is a social protection system that emphasizes institutional care for vulnerable individuals. It has been well established that in many cases institutionalization can be more expensive per client served and...

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A history of the social development network in The World Bank, 1973 - 2003

Davis, Gloria - World Bank Group - 2004

The paper is intended to provide an orientation to the past and present work of the Social Development network and a contribution to its future strategy. It presents a brief overview of the history of the Social Development network or family; it illustrates both continuity and change in the way...

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International portability of health-cost coverage : concepts and experience

Werding, Martin; McLennan, Stuart - World Bank Group - 2011

Social insurance and other arrangements for funding health-care benefits often establish long-term relationships, effectively providing insurance against lasting changes in an individual's health status, engaging in burden-smoothing over the life cycle, and entailing additional elements of...

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Health insurance : use of health care services by the poor efficiency and equity issues in the province of Kon Tum

Castel, Paulette - World Bank Group - 2009

The study merged two databases: the database on patients'visits collected for claim control and reimbursement purpose and, the database on the insured that is used to issue the health insurance cards. This study investigated these issues through the analysis of individual's health insurance data...

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Optimal unemployment insurance : a guide to the literature

Karni, Edi - World Bank Group - 1999

Unemployment insurance has been the subject of numerous theoretical and empirical studies. These studies elucidate the benefits and the cost of unemployment insurance, namely, the improved allocation of risk bearing and the reduced incentives for work. In the past two decades a branch of the...

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Effectiveness of lending for vocational education and training: lessons from World Bank experience

Canagarajah, S.; Dar, A.; Nording, R.; Raju, D. - World Bank Group - 2002

This paper reviews the Bank involvement in the vocational education and training (VET) sub-sector in the 1990s. The paper aims to do just that, by mainly seeking answers to the following questions: 1) How has the Bank performed in its lending services to its clients in VET? 2) How have VET...

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