Social protection for the poor and poorest: concept, policies and politics/
edited by Armando Barrientos and David Hulme
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- 344 p.
Social protection for the poor and poorest : an introduction -- Risks, needs and rights : compatible or contradictory bases for social protection -- Insurance for the poor? -- Transformative social protection : the currency of social justice -- Poverty traps and natural disasters in Ethiopia and Honduras -- Indonesia's social protection during and after the crisis -- HIV/AIDS, social protection and chronic poverty -- The social protection function of short-term public works programmes in the context of chronic poverty -- The emergence and popularity of conditional cash transfers in Latin America -- Assisting the poorest in Bangladesh : learning from BRAC's 'targeting the ultra-poor' programme -- Protecting the poorest with cash transfers in low income countries -- Process deficits in the provision of social protection in rural Maharashtra -- Conceptualising the politics of social protection in Africa -- Political incumbency and drought relief in Africa -- Can low income countries in sub-Saharan Africa afford basic social protection? First results of a modelling exercise -- Financing social protection -- Embedding social protection in the developing world.
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Social security -- Developing countries Poor -- Services for -- Developing countries