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Employment Generation for the Hardcore Poor and National Service: Challenges of Effective Implementation
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Developing and least developed countries suffer from high rate of unemployment and poverty. Additionally, they are vulnerable to external shocks and natural disasters....
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Does India’s Employment Guarantee Scheme Guarantee Employment
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In 2005 India introduced an ambitious national antipoverty program, now called the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. The program offers up...
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Targeting the Poorest: An assessment of the proxy means tests methodology
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The purpose of this study is to help AusAID staff, their counterparts in partner governments and others working in the field of social...
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Conditional Cash Transfers: A ‘Pathway to Women’s Empowerment’
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Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) provide mothers of school-age children in extreme poverty with a cash subsidy conditional on their children's attendance at school...
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Improving Access to Jobs and Earnings Opportunities
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Throughout the developing world there is a growing demand for advice on the design of policies to facilitate access of the most vulnerable...
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Richer but resented: What do cash transfers do to social relations and does it matter?
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Cash transfer interventions form increasingly important parts of social protection systems in most countries. Usually, cash transfers are evaluated against their first order...
