Social protection for the poor and poorest : concepts, policies and politics / edited by Armando Barrientos and David Hulme.

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Publication InfoBasingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Descriptionxxiii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Other author/creatorBarrientos, Armando.
Other author/creatorHulme, David.
Other author/creatorUniversity of Manchester. Brooks World Poverty Institute.
Other author/creatorChronic Poverty Research Centre.
SeriesPalgrave studies in development
Palgrave studies in development. ^A768557
Contents Social protection for the poor and poorest : an introduction / Armando Barrientos and David Hulme -- Risks, needs and rights : compatible or contradictory bases for social protection / Lauchlan T. Munro -- Insurance for the poor? / Stefan Dercon, Tessa Bold and Cesar Calvo -- Transformative social protection : the currency of social justice / Rachel Sabates-Wheeler and Stephen Devereux -- Poverty traps and natural disasters in Ethiopia and Honduras / Michael R. Carter, Peter D. Little, Tewodaj Mogues and Workneh Negatu -- Indonesia's social protection during and after the crisis / Sudarno Sumarto, Asep Suryahadi and Sami Bazzi -- HIV/AIDS, social protection and chronic poverty / Rachel Slater -- The social protection function of short-term public works programmes in the context of chronic poverty / Anna McCord -- The emergence and popularity of conditional cash transfers in Latin America / Tatiana Feitosa de Britto -- Assisting the poorest in Bangladesh : learning from BRAC's 'targeting the ultra-poor' programme / David Hulme and Karen Moore -- Protecting the poorest with cash transfers in low income countries / Bernd Schubert -- Process deficits in the provision of social protection in rural Maharashtra / Sony Pellissery -- Conceptualising the politics of social protection in Africa / Sam Hickey -- Political incumbency and drought relief in Africa / Ngonidzashe Munemo -- Can low income countries in sub-Saharan Africa afford basic social protection? First results of a modelling exercise / Christina Behrendt -- Financing social protection / Armando Barrientos -- Embedding social protection in the developing world / Armando Barrientos and David Hulme.
General note"In association with the Brooks World Poverty Institute at the University of Manchester and the Chronic Poverty Research Centre."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Bibliography noteIncludes web resources.
LCCN 2008000185
ISBN023052530X (alk. paper)
ISBN9780230525306 (hdbk)

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