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Social protection programs for women in developing countries : how to design social protection programs that poor women can benefit from

Cameron, Lisa Ann - 2019

Women are more likely than men to work in the informal sector and to drop out of the labor force for a time, such as after childbirth, and to be impeded by social norms from working in the formal sector. This work pattern undermines productivity, increases women's vulnerability to income shocks,...

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Social protection and poverty reduction in Senegal

Diop, Oumar Bassirou - In: Race to the next income frontier : how Senegal and …, (pp. 389-398). 2018

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Overcoming extreme poverty by social protection floors : approaches to closing the right to social security gap

Kaltenborn, Markus - In: Law and development review 10 (2017) 2, pp. 237-273

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Bedöma och åtgärda fattigdom : om välfärdens skiljelinjer och samhällets yttersta skyddsnät

Swärd, Hans (ed.) - 2018 - 1. upplaga

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Integration of administrative records for social protection policies : contributions from the Brazilian experience

Bartholo, Letícia; Mostafa, Joana; Osorio, Rafael Guerreiro - 2018

Integrating information for the purpose of articulating social protection policies is hard work. It requires a combination of political will, capacity for institutional cooperation, software development and direct communication channels with citizens. Because of this complexity, countries that...

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Adaptive safety nets for rural Africa : drought-sensitive targeting with sparse data

Baez, Javier E.; Kshirsagar, Varun; Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2019

This paper combines remote-sensed data and individual child-, mother-, and household-level data from the Demographic and Health Surveys for five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) to design a prototype drought-contingent targeting framework that...

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A proposal for the unification of social protection benefits for children, youth and those vulnerable to poverty

Soares, Sergei; Bartholo, Letícia; Osorio, Rafael Guerreiro - 2019

other inefficiencies. This paper proposes an approach through which all transfers to individuals vulnerable to poverty and … possible to propose a new transfer programme based on a universal child benefit and a targeted extreme poverty grant that will … be twice as effective at reducing poverty and inequality as the four existing programmes …

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Can social programs break the vicious cycle between poverty and obesity? : evidence from urban Mexico

Levasseur, Pierre - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 113 (2019), pp. 143-156

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Targeting of social transfers : are India's poor older people left behind?

Asri, Viola - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 115 (2019), pp. 46-63

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Household labor supply and social protection : evidence from Pakistan's BISP Cash Transfer Program

Ambler, Kate; De Brauw, Alan - 2019

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