The
Institute of Development Studies is pleased to anounce IDS
In Focus - the Institute's new thematic summary series.
In the first issue on Social Protection, members of the Vulnerability,
Poverty and Vulnerability Team at IDS
look at how both social protection thinking and practice have
taken several new directions since the phrase was first coined
ten years ago.
Browse
the complete collection (HTML)
Browse
the briefing notes and download sections
Looking at Social Protection Through a Livelihoods Lens
(PDF)
Stephen Devereux provides an overview of this In Focus collection.
Reconciling
Different Concepts of Risk and Vulnerability
(PDF)
"Efforts to map the full range of interventions is essential
to our understanding of donor's approaches to social protection"
argue Lawrence Haddad and Rachel Sabates-Wheeler.
Transformative
Social Protection (PDF)
Stephen Devereux and Rachel Sabates-Wheeler illustrate how
opinion of social protection has progressed and continues
to evolve since emerging from the safety nets agenda of the
1980s and 1990s.
Social
Protection for Workers (PDF)
While globalisation may have limited the ability of governments
to finance social welfare programmes, new actors and institutions
have emerged write Armando Barrientos and Stephanie Ware Barrientos.
Unconditional
Cash Transfers (PDF)
"There is a growing recognition that institutionalised
food aid in Africa has achieved little in terms of addressing
underlying problems of food insecurity" says Stephen
Devereux.
Child
Poverty and Cash Transfers (PDF)
How effective are cash transfers in helping to tackle child
poverty ask Armando Barrientos and Jocelyn DeJong.
Developing
a Social Protection Index for Asia (PDF)
Very little information has been available on the quantative
aspects of social protection beyond broad estimates of its
costs - until now.
Bob Baulch talks through the Social Protection Index.
Social
Assistance in Developing Countries (SADC) Database (PDF)
"Much can be learnt from paying close attention to the
wide range of poverty reduction initiatives in developing
countries." Armando Barrientos introduces the SADC database.
Researchers interested in contributing to the series
are invited to contact contact Clare
Gorman, Laura Turquet
or Caroline Knowles.
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