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Social Safety Nets Primer Papers

Topic

Author

SPDP #

Translations

Program Interventions


Assisting the Poor with Cash: Design and Implementation of Social Transfer Programs
 
Tabor 0223 Sp,  FrRus

A New Approach to Social Assistance: Latin America’s Experience with Conditional Cash Transfer Programs
 
Rawlings 0416 Sp

Community-Based Health Insurance and Social Protection Policy
 
Tabor 0503

Ensuring Access to Essential Services: Demand-Side Housing Subsidies
 
Katsura and Romanik 0232 FrRus

Food-Based Safety Nets and Related Programs
 
Rogers and Coates 0225 SpFrRus

Mitigating Social Risks in Kyrgyz Republic
 
Emil Tesliuc 0408  

Strengthening Public Safety Nets from the Bottom Up
 
Morduch and Sharma 0227 SpFrRus

Subsidies as a Social Safety Net: Effectiveness and Challenges
 
Alderman 0224 Sp FrRus

Systemic Shocks and Social Protection: Role and Effectiveness of Public
Works Programs

 
Subbarao 0302 SpFrRus

Transferring Cash Benefits Through the Banking Sector in Colombia
 
Lafaurie and Velasquez 0409 Sp


Waivers and Exemptions for Health Services in Developing Countries
 

Bitrán and Giedion

0308

SpFr

Themes


Designing and Implementing Household Targeting Systems: Lessons from Latin America and the United States
 
Castañeda, Lindert, de la Brière, Fernandez, Hubert, Larrañaga, Orozco, and Viquez 0526 Por

Gender and Risk in the Design of Social Protection Interventions
 
Ezemenari, Chaudhury and Owens 0231 Fr

Impact Evaluation of Social Programs: A Policy Perspective
 
Blomquist draft  

Implementing Means-Tested Welfare Systems in the United States
 
Lindert 0532

Incentives and the Role of Institutions in the Provision of Social Safety Nets
 
de Neubourg 0226 Fr, Rus

Focalización De Programas En Chile: El Sistema CAS
 
Larrañaga 0528

La Focalización En El Programa De Desarrollo Humano Oportunidades De Mexico
 
Orozco and Hubert 0531

Public Attitudes Matter: A Conceptual Frame for Accounting for Political Economy in Safety Nets and Social Assistance Policies
 
Graham 0233 FrRus


Reforming Brazil’s Cadastro Único to Improve the Targeting of the Bolsa Família Program
 
de la Brière and Lindert 0527  

Sistema de Identificación de la Población Objetivo: SIPO en Costa Rica
 
Víquez 0530  

Targeting of Transfers in Developing Countries: Review of Lessons and Experience (web link)
 
Coady, Grosh and Hoddinott Formal World Bank Publication  

Targeting Social Spending To The Poor With Proxy–Means Testing: Colombia’s SISBEN System
 
Castañeda 0529

Targeted Transfers in Poor Countries: Revisiting the Trade-Offs and Policy Options
 
Ravallion 0314 Sp

Testing Vietnam’s Public Safety Net
 
van de Walle 0319

The Political Economy of Targeted Safety Nets
 
Pritchett 0501  

Settings and Target Groups


Safety Nets in Transition Economies: A Primer
 
Fox 0306 Fr

What Role for Safety Net Transfers in Very Low Income Countries?
 
Smith and Subbarao 0301 Sp, FrRus

 

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Other Papers Related to Safety Nets  

Topic

Author

SPDP #

Translations

Program Interventions


Aging and Poverty in Africa and the Role of Social Pensions
 
Kakwani and Subbarao 0521

Delivery Mechanisms of Cash Transfer Programs to the Poor in Bangladesh
 
Ahmed 0520

Evaluating the Impact of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Lessons from Latin America
 
Rawlings and Rubio WB Policy Research Paper 3119

Redirecting Resources to Community Based Services: A Concept Paper
 
Fox and Gotestam 0311


Social Services Delivery through Community-Based Projects
 

McLeod and Tovo

0118

Sp


Workshop on Conditional Cash Transfer Programs (CCTs): Operational Experiences - Final Report

 

Ayala Consulting Co.

Sp

Themes


Community Based Targeting Mechanisms for Social Safety Nets

 

Conning and Kevane

0102

Sp


Institutional Analysis Toolkit for Safety Net Interventions
 
Mathauer 0418  


Vulnerability and Poverty Measurement Issues for Public Policy
 

Duclos

0230

SpFr


Benchmarking Government Provision of Social Safety Nets
 

Besley, Burgess and Rasul

0315


Social Safety Net Assessments from Central America: Cross-Country Review of Principal Findings
 

Marques

0316

Settings


A Technology White Paper on Improving the Efficiency of Social Safety Net Program Delivery in Low Income Countries: An Introduction to Available and Emerging Mobile Technologies
 
Gallaher 0522

Living in Limbo: Conflict-Induced Displacement in Europe and Central Asia (web link)
 
Holtzman and Nezam Formal World Bank Publication

Emerging from Ethnic Conflict: Challenges for Social Protection Design in Transition Countries
 
Bodewig 0229 Rus

Safety Nets in Transition Economies: Toward a Reform Strategy
 
Andrews and Ringold 9914


Social Safety Nets in Response to Crisis: Lessons and Guidelines from Asia and Latin America

 

Blomquist et al.

draft

Sp

Target Groups


Costs of Projects for Orphans and other Vulnerable Children: Case studies in Eritrea and Benin
 
Prywes, Coury, Fesseha, Hounsounou, and Kielland 0414  

Long-Term Welfare and Investment Impact of AIDS-Related Changes in Family Composition: Evidence from Uganda
 
Deininger, Crommelynck, and Kempaka 0207  

Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children: What Role for Social Protection?
 
Levine 0126  

Reaching Out to Africa's Orphans: A Framework for Public Action (web link)

 
Subbarao and Coury Formal World Bank Publication  

Social Protection of Africa's Orphans and Vulnerable Children: Issues and Good Practice Program Options
 
Subbarao and Mattamore AFR HD Working Paper Series No. 22909

Supporting and Expanding Community-Based HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care Responses: A Report on Save the Children (US) Malawi COPE Project
 
Hunter 0211  


World Vision’s Experience Working with HIV/AIDS Orphans in Uganda: 1990-1995
 

Muwonge

0210

 

 

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    Translations available where indicated: Sp (Spanish), Fr (French), Rus (Russian), Por (Portuguese).

    This list is current as of 06/05.

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