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32757: Reforming Brazil's Cadastro Unico to improve the targeting of the Bolsa Familia Program

Benedicte de la Briere and Kathy Lindert

32756: Designing and implementing household targeting systems: lessons from Latin American and The United States

Tarsicio Castaneda, Kathy Lindert, Benedicte de la Briere, Luisa Fernandez, Celia Hubert, Oswaldo Larranaya, Monica Orozco and Roxana Viquez

32755: Pension supervision: understanding international practice and country context

Richard P. Hinz and Anca Mataoanu

32754: Social security coverage in Latin America

Rafael Rofman

32753: 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

Mike Gallaher

32752: Aging and poverty in Africa and the role of social pensions

Nanak Kakwani and Kalanidhi Subbarao

32750: Portability regimes of pension and health care benefits for international migrants: an analysis of issues and good practices

Robert Holzmann, Johannes Koettl and Taras Chernetsky

32749: Who has the yam, and who has the knife? Social Action funds and decentralization in Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda

N. Mungai Lenneiye

32748: Household vulnerability and children's activities: information needed from household surveys to measure their relationship

Diane Steele

32747: The effect of child labor on mathematics and language achievement in Latin America

Mario A. Sanchez, Peter Orazem and Victoria Gunnarsson

32746: The inter-generational persistence of child labor

Patrick Emerson and André Souza

32745: How does working as a child affect wage, income, and poverty asan adult?

Nadeem Ilahi, Peter Orazem and Guilherme Sedlacek

32744: Dynamics of child labor: labor force entry and exit in urban Brazil

Suzanne Duryea, Jasper Hoek, David Lam and Deborah Levison

32743: The responses of child labor, school enrollment, and grade repetition to the loss of parental earnings in Brazil, 1982-1999

Marcelo Cortes Neri, Emily Gustafsson-Wright, Guilherme Sedlacek and Peter Orazem

32742: Child labor, schooling, and poverty in Latin America

Guilherme Sedlacek, Suzanne Duryea, Nadeem Ilahi and Masaru Sasaki

32741: Changing patterns of child labor around the world since 1950: the roles of income growth, parental literacy, and agriculture

Victoria Gunnarsson, Peter Orazem and Guilherme Sedlacek

32740: Disability and social safety nets in developing countries

Sophie Mitra

32739: Social Funds: a review of public sector management and institutional issues

Mukhmeet Bhatia

32548: How changes in benefits entitlement affect job-finding: lessons from the slovenian experiment

Jan van Ours and Milan Vodopivec

32546: Multinational enterprises and training revisited: do international standards matter?

Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch and Paula Castro

32545: Community-based health insurance and social protection policy

Steven R. Tabor

32544: Towards a better understanding of the nature, causes and consequences of youth labor market disadvantage: evidence for South-East Europe

Alexandre Kolev and Catherine Saget

31618: A history of the social development network in The World Bank, 1973 - 2003

Gloria Davis

31498: The political economy of targeted safety nets

Lant Pritchett

31372: Guidelines for assessing the sources of risk and vulnerability

R. Sudharshan Canagarajah, Paul B. Siegel and Karin Heitzmann

30166: Trade union participation in the PRSP process

Lawrence Egulu

30165: A new approach to social assistance: Latin America's experience with conditional cash transfer programs

Laura B. Rawlings

30164: Shocks and coffee: lessons from Nicaragua

Renos Vakis, Diana Kruger and Andrew D. Mason

30163: Costs of projects for orphans and other vulnerable children: case studies in Eritrea and Benin

Menahem Prywes, Diane Coury, Gebremeskel Fesseha, Gilberte Hounsounou and Anne Kielland

30162: Disability employment policy

Daniel Mont

30161: Child labor, education, and children's rights

Gordon Betcherman, Jean Fares, Amy Luinstra and Robert Prouty

30160: Challenges and opportunities of international migration for the EU, its member states, neighboring countries, and regions: a Policy Note

Robert Holzmann and Rainer Munz

30159: Evaluating different approaches to estimating vulnerability

Ethan Ligon and Laura Schechter

30158: Transferring cash benefits through the banking sector in Colombia

Maria Teresa Lafaurie V. and Claudia A. Velasquez Leiva

30154: Risk and vulnerability in Guatemala: a quantitative and qualitative assessment

Emil D. Tesliuc and Kathy Lindert

30153: Implicit pension debt: issues, measurement and scope in international perspective

Robert Holzmann, Robert Palacios and Asta Zviniene

29735: Food-based safety nets and related programs

Beatrice Lorge Rogers and Jennifer Coates

29144: Boosting productivity via innovation and adoption of new technologies: any role for labor market institutions?

Stefano Scarpetta and Thierry Tressel

29143: Mitigating the social impact of privatization and enterprise restructuring

David H. Fretwell

29142: Impacts of active labor market programs: new evidence from evaluations with particular attention to developing and transition countries

Gordon Betcherman, Karina Olivas and Amit Dar

29141: Consumption insurance and vulnerability to poverty: a synthesis of the evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Mali, Mexico and Russia

Emmanuel Skoufias and Agnes Quisumbing

29140: Pension reform in the Dominican Republic

Robert Palacios

29139: Disability pensions and social security reform: analysis of the Latin American experience

Carlos O. Grushka and Gustavo Demarco

29138: Methods for microeconometric risk and vulnerability assessments

John Hoddinott and Agnes Quisumbing

29136: Household vulnerability and child labor: the effect of shocks, credit rationing and insurance

Lorenzo Guarcelllo, Fabrizia Mealli and Furio Rosati

27875: Youth employment policy in developing and transition countries - preventionas well as cure

Martin Godfrey

27874: Testing Vietnam's public safety net

Dominique van de Walle

27873: The other side of self-employment: household enterprises in India

Maitreyi Das

27872: Child labor: what have we learnt?

Sonia Bhalotra, and Zafiris Tzannatos

27871: Social safety net assessments from Central America: cross-country review of principal findings

Jose Silverio Marques