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Towards greater poverty reduction in Zambia : simulating potential Cash Plus reforms using MicroZAMOD

Gasior, Katrin; McLennan, David; Kalikeka, Mbewe; … - 2021

A large share of the population in Zambia is living below the national poverty line. To reduce poverty, in 2019, the … MicroZAMOD to analyse the coverage and poverty impact of the current social protection system and to assess the extent to which … household composition. In theory, the Cash Plus reform offers the potential to achieve a greater poverty impact through multiple …

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The politics of who gets what and why : learning from the targeting of social cash transfers in Zambia

Pruce, Kate - In: The European journal of development research 35 (2023) 4, pp. 820-839

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Can unconditional cash transfers lead to sustainable poverty reduction? : evidence from two government-led programmes in Zambia

Handa, Sudhanshu; Natali, Luisa; Seidenfeld, David; … - 2016

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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 poverty has worsened, although AIDS, drought, and economic mismanagement have all compromised poverty reduction. In any case, child poverty has come under increased scrutiny,...

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Poverty-environment relationships under market heterogeneity : cash transfers and rural livelihoods in Zambia

Lawlor, Kathleen; Handa, Sudhanshu; Davis, Benjamin; … - In: Environment and development economics 25 (2020) 3, pp. 291-314

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Can unconditional cash transfers raise long-term living standards? : evidence from Zambia

Handa, Sudhanshu; Natali, Luisa; Seidenfeld, David; … - In: Journal of development economics 133 (2018), pp. 42-65

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Subsidy reforms in the Middle East and North Africa : strategic options and their consequences for the social contract

Auktor, Georgeta Vidican; Loewe, Markus - Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik - 2021

After independence, energy and food subsidies became a cornerstone of the social contracts in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries. Governments spent heavily to reduce poverty and strengthen their own legitimacy. However, as government rents faded, subsidy spending became...

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Paradoxes of social policy : welfare transfers, relative poverty, and redistribution preferences

Brady, David; Bostic, Amie - 2015

Korpi and Palme's (1998) classic "The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality" claims that universal social policy better reduces poverty than social policies targeted at the poor. This article revisits Korpi and Palme’s classic, and in the process, explores and informs a set of...

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Toward social welfare : an analysis of programs and proposals attacking poverty, insecurity, and inequality of opportunity

Wilcox, Clair - 1969

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Politics in the post-welfare state : responses to the new individualism

Hancock, Marion Donald (ed.); Sjoberg, Gideon (ed.) - 1972

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