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The politics of promoting social protection in Zambia

Pruce, Kate; Hickey, Sam - 2016

This paper examines the rise of the social protection agenda in Zambia, and demonstrates that this has two alternative drivers: shifting dynamics within Zambia's political settlement and the promotional efforts of a transnational policy coalition. We compare the cases of social cash transfers...

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The role of public health insurance in protecting against the costs of ill health : evidence from Mexico

Sáenz de Miera Juárez, Belén - 2017

, more recently, the Seguro Popular programme. Using data from the Mexican Family Life Survey, a nationally representative …

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Simulating policy options for universal child allowances in Ghana

Evans, Martin - 2018

Ghanaian households contain children, and those households contain 82 per cent of the total population, spreading the impact of … children. …

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Policy diffusion, domestic politics and social assistance in Lesotho, 1998-2012

Granvik, Maria - 2016

Lesotho is a small Southern African country that has introduced two national cash transfer programmes, the Old Age Pension and the Child Grant Programme. Although Lesotho has followed what has been called the 'Southern African model', the introduction of the Old Age Pension was not the result of...

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Poverty, changing political regimes, and social cash transfers in Zimbabwe, 1980 - 2016

Chinyoka, Isaac - 2017

Since 2000, Zimbabwe has been under some pressure to provide more fully for its children. It is not clear whether child …

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Fragmenting the family? : the complexity of household migration strategies in post-apartheid South Africa

Hall, Katharine; Posel, Dorrit - 2018

The disruption of family life is one of the important legacies of South Africa's colonial and apartheid history … the creation of the homelands. Despite the removal of legal restrictions on permanent urban settlement and family co … link urban and rural nodes, children have remained less urbanized than adults, and many grow up without co-resident parents …

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Health shocks and coping strategies : state health insurance scheme of Andhra Pradesh, India

Dhanaraj, Sowmya - 2014

The objectives of the study are three-fold: to investigate who are vulnerable to welfare loss from health shocks, what are the household responses to cope with the economic burden of health shocks and if policy responses like state health insurance schemes are effective in reducing the economic...

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Political role models, child marriage, and women's autonomy over marriage in India

Castilla, Carolina - 2017

Drawing data from the India Human Development Survey 2011 and the year of the first election with reserved seats for women pradhans, I estimate the effect of the Panchayati Raj institutions on age and autonomy over marriage. Results indicate that women in local government decrease the likelihood...

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The effect of China's One Child Policy on sex selection, family size, and the school enrolment of daughters

Qian, Nancy - 2017

second child. Next, I show that the increase in family size caused by this relaxation in the One Child Policy increased …

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Child deprivation and income poverty in Ghana

Kofinti, Raymond Elikplim; Annim, Samuel Kobina - 2015

deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the outcomes were compared to the incidence of income poverty. The analyses reveal …

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