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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

69422: Overview of the Philippines'conditional cash transfer program: the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (Pantawid Pamilya)

Luisa Fernandez and Rosechin Olfindo

68938: Public employment services, and activation policies

Arvo Kuddo

68937: Private pension systems: cross-country investment performance

Alberto R. Musalem and Ricardo Pasquini

68934: Global pension systems and their reform: worldwide drivers, trends, and challenges

Robert Holzmann

68513: Results-based lending approaches in social protection and labor: World Bank experiences

Maddalena Honorati, Laura Rawlings and Julie Van Domelen

67614: Climate responsive social protection

Anne Kuriakose, Rasmus Heltberg, Rasmus Heltberg, William Wiseman, Cecilia Costella, Rachel Cipryk and Sabine Cornelius

67613: Labor markets in low and middle income countries: trends and implications for social protection and labor policies

Yoonyoung Cho, David Margolis and David Robalino

67612: Rules, roles, and controls: governance in social protection with an application to social assistance

Lucy Bassett, Sara Giannozzi, Lucian Pop and Dena Ringold

67611: Crisis response in social protection

Federica Marzo and Hideki Mori

67610: Improving access to jobs and earnings opportunities: the role of activation and graduation policies in developing countries

Rita Almeida, Juliana Arbelaez, Maddalena Honorati, Arvo Kuddo, Tanja Lohmann, Mirey Ovadiya, Lucian Pop, Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta and Michael Weber

67609: Productive role of safety nets: background paper for the World Bank 2012-2022 social protection and labor strategy

Harold Alderman and Ruslan Yemtsov

67608: Building social protection and labor systems: concepts and operational implications

David Robalino, Laura Rawlings and Ian Walker

67607: Social protection in low income countries and fragile situations: challenges and future directions

Colin Andrews, Maitreyi Das, John Elder, Mirey Ovadiya and Giuseppe Zampaglione

66594: Micro-determinants of informal employment in the Middle East and North Africa region

Diego Angel-Urdinola and Kimie Tanabe

66523: Employment generation in rural Africa: mid-term results from an experimental evaluation of the Youth Opportunities Program in Northern Uganda

Christopher Blattman, Nathan Fiala and Sebastian Martinez

64633: Measuring governance and service delivery in safety net programs

Gloria M. Rubio

64632: Assessing safety net readiness in response to food price volatility

Margaret Grosh, Colin Andrews, Rodrigo Quintana and Rodriguez?Alas, Claudia

64631: Social safety nets in fragile states: a community-based school feeding program in Togo

Colin Andrews, Elena Galliano, Carolyn Turk and Giuseppe Zampaglione

64277: Voluntary pension system challenge of expanding coverage

Nguyen Thi Thu Phuong and Paulette Castel

64276: Social assistance: cash transfers potential impact of decision 67

Pham Anh Tuyet and Paulette Castel

64275: Health insurance: use of health care services by the poor efficiency and equity issues in the province of Kon Tum

Paulette Castel

64274: Compulsory social security participation revealed preferences

Trung Thanh and Paulette Castel

63930: Strengthening governance of social safety nets in East Asia

Sara Giannozzi and Asmeen Khan

63929: International portability of health-cost coverage: concepts and experience

Martin Werding and Stuart McLennan

63418: Welfare and distributionalimpacts of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program

Rashiel Velarde and Luisa Fernandez