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100363: Effectiveness of targeting mechanisms utilized in social protection programs in Bolivia

Ignacio Raul Apella and Gastón Blanco

100084: Integrating disaster response and climate resilience in social protection programs in the Pacific Island Countries

Cecilia Valentina Costella and Oleksiy Ivaschenko

99275: Kyrgyz Republic - Social sectors at a glance

Joao Pedro Wagner De Azevedo, Paula Andrea Calvo, Minh Nguyen and Josefina Posadas

98253: Entering the city: emerging evidence and practices with safety nets in urban areas

Ugo Gentilini

98252: International patterns of pension provision

Robert J. Palacios and Montserrat Pallares-Miralles

98131: Pension patterns in Sub-Saharan Africa

Mark Charles Dorfman

96557: An examination of elderly co-residence in the developing world

Brooks Fox Evans and Robert J. Palacios

96378: Social protection in fragile and conflict-affected countries: trends and challenges

Mirey Ovadiya, Adea Kryeziu, Syeda Masood and Eric Zapatero Larrio

95198: Defining, measuring, and benchmarking administrative expenditures of mandatory social security programs

Oleksiy Sluchynsky

93059: Effective Targeting for the Poor and Vulnerable

Phillippe Leite

92725: Old-age financial protection in Malaysia: challenges and options

Robert Holzmann

91808: Communication following a disaster

Cynthia Burton and Mirey Ovadiya

91807: Monitoring and evaluating social protection programs'efforts to respond to natural disaster and climate change-related shocks

Rachel Cipryk and Mirey Ovadiya

91806: Adapting benefit transfer mechanisms to respond to disasters and climate change-related events

Mirey Ovadiya

91778: Building flexible and scalable social protection programs that can respond to disasters

Mirey Ovadiya

91777: Targeting households vulnerable to disasters and climate change

Cecilia Costella and Mirey Ovadiya

91577: Rwanda - Social safety net assessment

Alex Kamurase, Emily Wylde, Stephen Hitimana and Anka Kitunzi

91576: Niger - Food security and safety nets

Jenny C. Aker, Carlo del Ninno, Paul Dorosh, Menno Mulder-Sibanda and Setareh Razmara

91575: Tanzania - Poverty, growth, and public transfers: options for a national productive safety net program

W. James Smith

91051: Profiling the unemployed: a review of OECD experiences and implications for emerging economics

Artan Loxha and Matteo Morgandi

90506: Brazil's Bolsa Escola program: the role of local governance in decentralized implementation

Alain de Janvry, Frederico Finan, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Donald Nelson, Kathy Lindert, Benedicte de la Briere and Peter Lanjouw

90348: Designing and implementing unemployment benefit systems in middle and low income countries: key choices between insurance and savings accounts

David Robalino and Michael Weber

90347: The performance of social pensions in India: the case of Rajasthan

Puja Dutta, Philip O'Keefe and Mansoora Rashid

90346: Reforming the pension reforms: the recent initiatives and actions on pensions in Argentina and Chile

Rafael Rofman, Eduardo Fajnzylber and German Herrera

90345: Work history and the access to contributory pensions in Uruguay: some facts and policy options

Marisa Bucheli, Alvaro Forteza and Ianina Rossi

90344: A theory of contribution density and implications for pension design

Salvador Valdés

90343: Generational accounting and Hungarian pension reform

Róbert I. Gál, Andras Simonovits and Géza Tarcali

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