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Social Protection for Africa's Children.

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Handa, Sudhanshu
Otros Autores: Devereux, Stephen, active 1988, Webb, Douglas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2010.
Colección:Routledge studies in development economics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (271 pages).
ISBN:9780203842812
0203842812