The welfare of the elderly becomes one of the emerging problems in Asia, whose baby boomers are about to become the elderly. Few studies, however, have addressed their "potential Need" for social welfare that is expected to rapidly rise soon after retirement. The potential need of these...

Impact Evaluation of the Brazilian Social Programs on Family Welfare Key-words: impact evaluation; cash transfer; public policy; labor supply; child labor; school attendance. This study uses an impact evaluation methodology to analyze the non-contributory pension program BPC on family welfare....

This paper seeks to contribute to the debate on the impact of the adoption of information technologies (ICT) in poverty reduction by understanding how the poor obtain, share and use ICT on their everyday life - what we call the informational lives of the poor. It identifies the opportunities and...