Social Protection Discussion Papers and Notes

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127471: Implementing Emergency Cash Transfers: The Philippine Experience in Response to the 2016/17 Disasters

Pablo Acosta, Teresa Pamela Celajes Palma, Joedie De Guzman Perez and Rashiel Besana Velarde

119393: Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) and the case for building an emergency cash transfer program in the Philippines

Thomas Vaughan Bowen and Thomas Vaughan Bowen

90342: An ex-ante evaluation of the impact of social insurance policies on labor supply in Brazil: the case for explicit over implicit redistribution

David Robalino, Eduardo Zylberstajn, Helio Zylberstajn and Luís Afonso

90341: Examining conditional cash transfer programs: a role for increased social inclusion?

Bénédicte de la Brière and Laura B. Rawlings

90340: Civil-service pension schemes around the world

Robert Palacios and Edward Whitehouse

90187: World Bank support for social safety nets 2007-2013: a review of financing, knowledge services, and results

Colin Andrews, Adea Kryeziu and Dahye Seo

90030: Any guarantees?: China's rural minimum living standard guarantee program

Jennifer Golan, Terry Sicular and Nithin Umapathi

89708: Zambia - Using social safety nets to accelerate poverty reduction and share prosperity

Cornelia Tesliuc, W. James Smith and Musonda Rosemary Sunkutu

89563: Personal Opinions about the Social Security System and Informal Employment: Evidence from Bulgaria

Valeria Perotti and Maria Sanchez Puerta

89502: Our daily bread: what is the evidence on comparing cash versus food transfers?

Ugo Gentilini

89231: Madagascar - three years into crisis

Philippe Auffret

89230: Sudan - social safety assessment

Annika Kjellgren, Christina Jones-Pauly, Hadyiat El-Tayeb Alyn, Endashaw Tadesse and Andrea Vermehren

89188: Mali social safety nets

Cecile Cherrier, Carlo del Ninno and Setareh Razmara

89187: Social insurance reform in Jordan: awareness and perceptions of employment opportunities for women

Stefanie Brodmann, Irene Jillson and Nahla Hassan

89003: Botswana social protection

Cornelia Tesliuc, Jose Silverio Marques, Lillian Mookodi, Jeanine Braithwaite, Siddarth Sharma and Dolly Ntseane

89002: Swaziland: using public transfers to reduce extreme poverty

Lorraine Blank, Emma Mistiaen and Jeanine Braithwaite

89000: Togo: towards a national social protection policy and strategy

Julie van Domelen

88999: Lesotho: a safety net to end extreme poverty

W. James Smith, Emma Mistiaen, Melis Guven and Morabo Morojele

88998: Mozambique social protection assessment

Jose Silverio Marques

88997: Liberia: a diagnostic of social protection

Andrea Borgarello, Laura Figazzolo and Emily Weedon

88995: Cameroon social safety nets: Africa social safety net and Social protection assessment series

Carlo del Ninno and Kaleb Tamiru

88994: Burkina Faso social safety nets

Cecile Cherrier, Carlo del Ninno and Setareh Razmara

88769: Social assistance and labor market programs in Latin America: methodology and key findings from the social protection database

Paula Cerutti, Anna Fruttero, Margaret Grosh, Silvana Kostenbaum, María Laura Oliveri, Claudia Rodriguez-Alas and Victoria Strokova

84081: Improving payment mechanisms in cash-based safety net programs

Carlo del Ninno, Kalanidhi Subbarao, Annika Kjellgren and Rodrigo Quintana

83925: Youth employment: a human development agenda for the next decade

David Robalino, David Margolis, Friederike Rother, David Newhouse and Mattias Lundberg

83911: Poverty reduction and investing in people: the new role of safety nets in Africa experiences from 22 countries

Victoria Monchuk

83118: Eligibility thresholds for minimum living guarantee programs: international practices and implications for China

Nithin Umapathi, Dewen Wang and Philip O'Keefe

80105: Tailoring social protection to small island developing states: lessons learned from the Caribbean

Asha Williams, Timothy Cheston, Aline Coudouel and Ludovic Subran

78980: The nuts and bolts of designing and implementing training programs in developing countries

Maddalena Honorati and Thomas P McArdle

78652: Common ground: UNICEF and World Bank approaches to building social protection systems

Laura Rawlings, Sheila Murthy and Natalia Winder

77927: Barriers to entry and returns to capital in informal activities: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Michael Grimm, Jens Kruger and Jann Lay

77926: Constrained gazelles: high potentials in West Africa's informal economy

Michael Grimm, Peter Knorringa and Jann Lay

77925: Unlocking potential: tackling economic, institutional and social constraints of informal entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa: main findings and policy conclusions

Michael Grimm, Rolph van der Hoeven and Jann Lay

77168: Entrepreneurship programs in developing countries: a meta regression analysis

Yoonyoung Cho and Maddalena Honorati

75529: Skilled labor flows: lessons from the European Union

Martin Kahanec

73924: Evaluating the efficacy of mass media and social marketing campaigns in changing consumer financial behavior

Florentina Mulaj and William Jack

73719: Cash for work in Sierra Leone: a case study on the design and implementation of a safety net in response to a crisis

Colin Andrews, Mirey Ovadiya, Christophe Ribes Ros and Quentin Wodon

73703: Building results frameworks for safety nets projects

Gloria M. Rubio

73696: Do social benefits respond to crises? Evidence from Europe and Central Asia during the global crisis

Aylin Isik-Dikmelik

73484: Timor-Leste - Social assistance public expenditure and program performance report

Nithin Umapathi, Pamela Dale and Lena Lepuschuetz

72047: Liberia's Cash for Work Temporary Employment Project: responding to crisis in low income, fragile countries

Colin Andrews, Prospere Backiny-Yetna, Emily Garin, Emily Weedon, Quentin Wodon and Giuseppe Zampaglione

71903: Activation policies in OECD countries: an overview of current approaches

Herwig Immervoll

70926: Pension coverage in Latin America: trends and determinants

Rafael Rofman and María Laura Oliveri

70925: World Bank support for pensions and social security

Mark Dorfman and Robert Palacios

70613: Brazil - Social policy, perceptions and the press: an analysis of the media's treatment of conditional cash transfers in Brazil

Kathy Lindert and Vanina Vincensini

70319: International patterns of pension provision II: a worldwide overview of facts and figures

Montserrat Pallares-Miralles, Carolina Romero and Edward Whitehouse

69995: Adolescence: protecting and promoting human development in times of economic shocks

Kevin Hempel, Alice Wuermli and Mattias Lundberg

69993: Middle childhood: protecting and promoting human development in times of economic shocks

Kevin Hempel, Alice Wuermli and Mattias Lundberg

69992: Early childhood: protecting and promoting human development in times of economic shocks

Alice Wuermli, Kevin Hempel, Mattias Lundberg and Juliana Arbelaez

69423: Philippines - Welfare and distributional impacts of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program

Rashiel Verlarde and Luisa Fernandez