Social Protection Discussion Papers and Notes

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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

27870: Benchmarking government provision of social safety nets

Timothy Besley, Robin Burgess and Imran Rasul

27869: Targeted transfers in poor countries: revisiting the trade-offs and policy options

Martin Ravallion

27868: Why are educated women less likely to be employed in India? Testing competing hypotheses

Maitreyi Bordia Das, and Sonalde Desai

27007: Creating partnerships with working children and youth

Per Miljeteig

26308: Redirecting resources to community based services: a concept paper

Louise Fox and Ragnar Gotestam

26307: Unemployment benefit systems in Central and Eastern Europe: a review of the 1990s

Milan Vodopivec, Andreas Wörgötter and Dhushyanth Raju

25988: Gender and social funds: challenges and opportunities

Kathleen Kuehnast

25987: Waivers and exemptions for health services in developing countries

Ricardo Bitran and Ursula Giedion

25986: Ageing and pensions in the Euro Area Survey and projection results

Philipp Rother, M. Catenaro and G. Schwab

25985: Safety nets in transition economies: a primer

Louise Fox

25984: Child work: an expository framework of altruistic and non-altruistic models

Furio Rosati and Zafiris Tzannatos

25983: Pension reform in Croatia

Zoran Anusic, O"Keefe, Philip and Sanja Madzarevic-Sujster

25982: Joblessness and precarious work in Bulgaria: addressing the multiple aspects of vulnerability in the labour market

Alexandre Kolev

25605: What role for safety net transfers in very low income countries?

James W. Smith and Kalanidhi Subbarao

25536: Ensuring access to essential services: demand-side housing subsidies

Harold M. Katsura and Clare T. Romanik

25534: Vulnerability and poverty measurement issues for public policy

Jean-Yves Duclos

25533: Emerging from ethnic conflict: challenges for social protection design in transition countries

Christian Bodewig

25532: Child work in Zambia: a comparative study of survey instruments

Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch, Amit Dar, Lorenzo Guarcello, Scott Lyon, Amy Ritualo and Furio Rosati

25530: Social fund support of microfinance: a review of implementation experience

Alexandra Gross and Samantha de Silva

25529: Income support systems for the unemployed: issues and options

Milan Vodopivec and Dhushyanth Raju

25528: Social protection @ Your Fingertips - using information and communications technologies in social protection

Knut Leipold

25527: Short- and long-term impacts of economic policies on child labor and schooling in Ghana

Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch, R. Sudharshan Canagarajah and Sangeeta Goyal

25526: Supporting and expanding community-based HIV/AIDS prevention and care responses: a report on Save the Children (US) Malawi COPE Project

Susan S. Hunter

25524: Mandatory annuity design in developing economies

Suzanne Doyle and John Piggott

25523: Long-term welfare and investment impact of AIDS-related changes in family composition: evidence from Uganda

Klaus Deininger, Anja Crommelynck and Gloria Kempaka