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Weaving Social Safety Nets

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
ISBN 13 : 929092148X
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Weaving Social Safety Nets written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent economic slowdown, the preceding period episode of high food and oil prices, and the ever-present risk of natural disasters have highlighted that Pacific island countries and their people are very vulnerable to economic and natural forces beyond their control. Informal support provided by extended families and communities to those in need have been coming under increasing strain and no longer offer sufficient protection to those facing temporary hardship. This policy brief provides an overview of the role of social safety nets in protecting vulnerable groups during times of stress, and outlines key factors that should be considered in the design of such programs. The key response should be to plan ahead and have appropriate policies and programs in place to protect the vulnerable before a crisis hits.

Realizing the Full Potential of Social Safety Nets in Africa

Author : Kathleen Beegle
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464811660
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Realizing the Full Potential of Social Safety Nets in Africa written by Kathleen Beegle and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty remains a pervasive and complex phenomenon in Sub-Saharan Africa. Part of the agenda in recent years to tackle poverty in Africa has been the launching of social safety nets programs. All countries have now deployed safety net interventions as part of their core development programs. The number of programs has skyrocketed since the mid-2000s though many programs remain limited in size. This shift in social policy reflects the progressive evolution in the understanding of the role that social safety nets can play in the fight against poverty and vulnerability, and more generally in the human capital and growth agenda. Evidence on their impacts on equity, resilience, and opportunity is growing, and makes a foundational case for investments in safety nets as a major component of national development plans. For this potential to be realized, however, safety net programs need to be significantly scaled-up. Such scaling up will involve a series of technical considerations to identify the parameters, tools, and processes that can deliver maximum benefits to the poor and vulnerable. However, in addition to technical considerations, and at least as importantly, this report argues that a series of decisive shifts need to occur in three other critical spheres: political, institutional, and fiscal. First, the political processes that shape the extent and nature of social policy need to be recognized, by stimulating political appetite for safety nets, choosing politically smart parameters, and harnessing the political impacts of safety nets to promote their sustainability. Second, the anchoring of safety net programs in institutional arrangements †“ related to the overarching policy framework for safety nets, the functions of policy and coordination, as well as program management and implementation †“ is particularly important as programs expand and are increasingly implemented through national channels. And third, in most countries, the level and predictability of resources devoted to the sector needs to increase for safety nets to reach the desired scale, through increased efficiency, increased volumes and new sources of financing, and greater ability to effectively respond to shocks. This report highlights the implications which political, institutional, and fiscal aspects have for the choice and design of programs. Fundamentally, it argues that these considerations are critical to ensure the successful scaling-up of social safety nets in Africa, and that ignoring them could lead to technically-sound, but practically impossible, choices and designs.

Weaving Social Safety Nets

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
ISBN 13 : 929092148X
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (99 download)

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The War on Poverty

Author : Annelise Orleck
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820341843
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The War on Poverty written by Annelise Orleck and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty has long been portrayed as the most potent symbol of all that is wrong with big government. Conservatives deride the War on Poverty for corruption and the creation of "poverty pimps," and even liberals carefully distance themselves from it. Examining the long War on Poverty from the 1960s onward, this book makes a controversial argument that the programs were in many ways a success, reducing poverty rates and weaving a social safety net that has proven as enduring as programs that came out of the New Deal. The War on Poverty also transformed American politics from the grass roots up, mobilizing poor people across the nation. Blacks in crumbling cities, rural whites in Appalachia, Cherokees in Oklahoma, Puerto Ricans in the Bronx, migrant Mexican farmworkers, and Chinese immigrants from New York to California built social programs based on Johnson's vision of a greater, more just society. Contributors to this volume chronicle these vibrant and largely unknown histories while not shying away from the flaws and failings of the movement--including inadequate funding, co-optation by local political elites, and blindness to the reality that mothers and their children made up most of the poor. In the twenty-first century, when one in seven Americans receives food stamps and community health centers are the largest primary care system in the nation, the War on Poverty is as relevant as ever. This book helps us to understand the turbulent era out of which it emerged and why it remains so controversial to this day.

Feeding the Crisis

Author : Maggie Dickinson
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520307674
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Feeding the Crisis written by Maggie Dickinson and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps, is one of the most controversial forms of social welfare in the United States. Although it’s commonly believed that such federal programs have been cut back since the 1980s, Maggie Dickinson charts the dramatic expansion and reformulation of the food safety net in the twenty-first century. Today, receiving SNAP benefits is often tied to work requirements, which essentially subsidizes low-wage jobs. Excluded populations—such as the unemployed, informally employed workers, and undocumented immigrants—must rely on charity to survive. Feeding the Crisis tells the story of eight families as they navigate the terrain of an expanding network of food assistance programs in which care and abandonment work hand in hand to regulate people on the social and economic margins. Amid calls at the federal level to expand work requirements for food assistance, Dickinson shows us how such ideas are bad policy that fail to adequately address hunger in America. Feeding the Crisis brings the voices of food-insecure families into national debates about welfare policy, offering fresh insights into how we can establish a right to food in the United States.

Cash Transfers for Poverty Reduction

Author : Francisco V. Ayala
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315407213
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Cash Transfers for Poverty Reduction written by Francisco V. Ayala and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-06 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 20 years, more than 100 countries have implemented social safety nets, targeted at the poorest and most vulnerable. Impact evaluations have shown the effectiveness of these programmes, and policymakers have explored different methods of delivery, including cash transfers. Cash Transfers for Poverty Reduction offers the first systematic discussion of the design and implementation of poverty reduction schemes, and cash transfer programmes in particular. The authors also draw on their own practical experienceand present global case studies to show the effects that these decisions have on operations and outcomes. Featuring end-of-chapter questions and answers to help test your knowledge, this book offers an operational guide for key stakeholders, officials and students in understanding the design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of cash transfer programmes.

Social Science Research in India and the World

Author : R. K. Mishra
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317408918
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Social Science Research in India and the World written by R. K. Mishra and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique and comprehensive study on social science research, this book highlights the status, issues, roadblocks and challenges of the field in India and certain select nations of the world. It conducts key cross-comparisons with existing literature in the area, and discusses aid policies and decisions, funding dynamics and quality of research as well as assessment systems in social science research.

Household Vulnerability and Resilience to Economic Shocks

Author : Simon Feeny
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317121058
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Household Vulnerability and Resilience to Economic Shocks written by Simon Feeny and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the vulnerability and resilience to economic shocks at the household level, this book draws on extensive research activities carried out in two Melanesia countries: the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. In particular, it identifies the household impacts of the recent food, fuel and economic crises. The contributors also examine resilience by identifying how households responded to these recent economic events in order to cope with their impacts. Findings indicate that households are vulnerable to a range of shocks and often struggle to cope with their impacts. Shocks are making it harder for households to meet their basic needs. Households in Melanesia are facing increasing demands for money, in particular for school fees, basic foodstuffs and customary obligations. Concurrently, there are limited domestic opportunities for formal employment. Traditional social support networks are strong and are an important form of resilience. However, there is evidence that they are disintegrating. Of particular focus are the gendered impacts. Women are found to bear a disproportionate share of the burden in adjusting to household shocks. The authors highlight key areas in which public policy and development programmes can reduce household vulnerability and increase their resilience to future economic shocks.

Social work and global health inequalities

Author : Bywaters, Paul
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1847421970
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Social work and global health inequalities written by Bywaters, Paul and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2009-09-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tackling inequalities in health is an essential social work task. Every day, social workers grapple with the impact on people's lives of the social inequalities that shape their health chances and experience. This book examines the relationship between social work and health inequalities in the context of globalisation. Based on the practice expertise and research of social workers from developing and developed countries worldwide and using specific examples, this book: · demonstrates the relevance of health inequalities to social work practice and policy across the lifecourse; · analyses barriers to good health that result from global social, economic, environmental and political trends; · develops core ideas on how social workers can act to combat negative effects of globalisation by adopting a health inequalities lens. Social work and global health inequalities is a unique snapshot of a new global social work that is responsive to local conditions and circumstances but seeks partners in the international struggle for equity, rights and social justice. This groundbreaking collection is essential reading for social work students, academics and researchers, and for policy makers, managers and social workers.

The World of Child Labor

Author : Hugh D Hindman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317453867
Total Pages : 1033 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The World of Child Labor written by Hugh D Hindman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 1033 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The World of Child Labor" details both the current and historical state of child labor in each region of the world, focusing on its causes, consequences, and cures. Child labor remains a problem of immense social and economic proportions throughout the developing world, and there is a global movement underway to do away with it. Volume editor Hugh D. Hindman has assembled an international team of leading child labor scholars, researchers, policy-makers, and activists to provide a comprehensive reference with over 220 essays. This volume first provides a current global snapshot with overview essays on the dimensions of the problem and those institutions and organizations combating child labor. Thereafter the organization of the work is regional, covering developed, developing, and less developed regions of the world.The reference goes around the globe to document the contemporary and historical state of child labor within each major region (Africa, Latin and South America, North America, Europe, Middle East, Asia, and Oceania) including country-level accounts for nearly half of the world's nations. Country-level essays for more developed nations include historical material in addition to current issues in child labor. All country-level essays address specific facets of child labor problems, such as industries and occupations in which children commonly work, the national child welfare policy, occupational safety regulations, educational system, and laws, and often highlight significant initiatives against child labor.Current statistical data accompany most country-level essays that include ratifications to UN and ILO conventions, the Human Development Index, human capital indicators, economic indicators, and national child labor surveys conducted by the Statistical Information and Monitoring Program on Child Labor. "The World of Child Labor" is designed to be a self-contained, comprehensive reference for high school, college, and professional researchers. Maps, photos, figures, tables, references, and index are included.

Interpreting China's Development

Author : John Wong
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9812771069
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book Interpreting China's Development written by John Wong and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2007 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Interpreting ChinaOCOs Development, leading experts on China provide an overview of this growing superpower, highlighting key issues in the country''s political, economic and social development. Underpinned by up-to-date scholarly research yet written in a readable and concise style, this volume of over 40 short chapters offers a very accessible way to understanding the major events and dominant issues that had emerged in China over the last few decades. The essays are grouped under four thematic sections OCo challenges of governance, growth and structural changes, coping with rising social problems and relations with major powers and neighbours OCo covering salient topics such as the emerging mode of leadership succession, sustainability of ChinaOCOs high growth, widening inequalities, environmental crisis and the external impact of ChinaOCOs rise. Non-specialists in particular, should find this volume useful in keeping up with ChinaOCOs fast changing developments."

Expanding Peace Journalism

Author : Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 1743320450
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Expanding Peace Journalism written by Ibrahim Seaga Shaw and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new text explores and interrogates peace journalism as a significant challenge to this hegemonic discourse, which has been advocated and elaborated over the recent years in journalism, media development and academic spheres.

Empowering rural women through social protection

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empowering rural women through social protection written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper reviews evidence on the most widely-used social protection schemes, assessing the extent of their current and potential impact on women's economic empowerment.

What Future for Social Security?

Author : Jochen Clasen
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 9781861344106
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book What Future for Social Security? written by Jochen Clasen and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2002-07-27 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By drawing on data and theories in a broad spectrum of disciplines, including political science, economics, sociology and law this work provides an authoritative assessment of the current state of social security reform.

Pacific Department 2009 Compendium of Knowledge Products

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
ISBN 13 : 929254764X
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Pacific Department 2009 Compendium of Knowledge Products written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This contains the publications produced in 2009, announces the forthcoming titles, and lists some of the major publications of earlier years.

The Politics of Marketising Asia

Author : T. Carroll
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137001674
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Marketising Asia written by T. Carroll and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic growth continues to transform the economic and political landscape of Asia. Equally the policies now being adopted to promote private sector participation, re-structure state entities, and reduce the presence of the state in the provision of public goods and services, are tied to fundamental transformations in Asia's state-society relations. The global cast of contributors present a timely analysis of the impact of neo-liberalism on Asia's developmental policies and the organisation of Asian states and markets. Ironically, the "developmental state" that has historically driven Asia's rapid economic transformation is now threatened by an increasingly dominant neoliberal agenda that aims to roll back the state in the name of market fundamentalism.

Poverty Alleviation in China

Author : Kun Yan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3662473925
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Poverty Alleviation in China written by Kun Yan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study systematically investigates the development process, major characteristics and weak links of China's poverty alleviation experience and conducts a comparative analysis of poverty alleviation cases. It also accurately presents the internal logic and core elements of China's poverty alleviation theory and taking the Chinese experience of poverty alleviation refines the "Two Threads One Force" theoretical framework to make a basic judgment of the "China model" for poverty alleviation. It also presents the rationale and plans for responding to new challenges to achieve poverty alleviation goals, which will enhance the welfare of the people and promote social progress and national prosperity.