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1 online resource (271 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Development Economics |
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Routledge studies in development economics
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Part I Context; 1 Social protection for Africa's children; 2 The case for social protection for children; Part II Targeting; 3 Reaching orphans and vulnerable children through cash transfers in sub-Saharan Africa: Simulation results from alternative targeting schemes; 4 Targeting of Kenya's Cash Transfer Program for Orphans and Vulnerable Children; Part III Impacts; 5 The impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Program on schooling and child labor |
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6 Impacts on children of cash transfers in Malawi7 Impacts of South Africa's Child Support Grant; Part IV Social justice; 8 Lessons learned from the campaigns to expand the Child Support Grant in South Africa; 9 Children and AIDS as a driver of social protection; 10 Child vulnerability and community coping mechanisms: Implications for social protection policy in Africa; 11 Transformative social protection for Africa's children; Index |
| Summary |
Social protection is currently receiving a great deal of academic and policy attention throughout Africa, but not all policy decisions taken are based on solid evidence. Social protection can be understood as interventions that reduce social vulnerability, economic risk and extreme poverty. Because of the newness of this rapidly evolving agenda, evidence on critical design choices such as targeting, and on impacts of social protection interventions, is mostly limited to case studies or small, unrepresentative surveys. This book makes a major contribution to building the evidence base, drawing |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Child welfare -- Africa
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Public welfare -- Africa
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Child welfare
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Economic history
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Public welfare
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Children -- Africa -- Economic conditions
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Children -- Africa -- Social conditions
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| Subject |
Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Devereux, Stephen, active 1988
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Webb, Douglas
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| ISBN |
9780203842812 |
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0203842812 |
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