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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

25510: An overview of labor markets world-wide: key trends and major policy issues

Gordon Betcherman

25507: Child labor handbook

Alessandro Cigno, Furio Rosati and Zafiris Tzannatos

25300: Incentives and the role of institutions in the provision of social safety nets

Chris de Neubourg

25299: Subsidies as a social safety net: effectiveness and challenges

Harold Alderman

25295: The World Bank and children: a review of activities

Iqbal Kaur and Zafiris Tzannatos

24675: Czech pensionsystem: challenges and reform options

Esperanza Lasagabaster, Roberto Rocha and Patrick Wiese

24661: Guide for task teams on procurement procedures used in social funds

Jorge A. Cavera Uriona

24660: Is child work necessary?

Sonia Bhalotra

24089: Orphans and other vulnerable children: what role for social protection ?

Levine, Anthony [editor], Eduardo Doryan, Susan Hunter, Kalanidhi Subbarao, Christopher Walker, Matthew Lukoda, Assefaw Tekeste Ghebrekidan, Florence Baingana, Heather Macleon, Birger Frederiksen, Christene Kamwendo, Joe Muwonge, Rhoi Wangile, Namposya Serpell, Trina Haque, Mark Lorey, Mike Wessells, Matthew Hodge, Shanta Devarajan, Peter McDermott, Sarah Browsky, Laelia Gilborn, Margaret Grosh, Doreen Mulenga, Ian MacLeod, Mamphele Ramphele and Mark Connolly

24088: Child farm labour: the wealth paradox

Sonia Bhalotra and Christopher Heady

24087: Measuring and analyzing child labor: methodological issues

Bjorne Grimsrud

24086: Family - controlled child labor in Sub-Saharan Africa - a survey of research

Jen Christopher Andvig

24084: Unemployment insurance and unemployment assistance: a comparison

Wayne Vroman

24083: Does eurosclerosis matter ? - institutional reform and labor market performance in Central and Eastern European countries in the 1990s

Michelle Riboud, Carolina Sanchez-Paramo and Carlos Silva-Jauregui

24081: Child labor, nutrition, and education in rural India: an economic analysis of parental choice and policy options

Alessandro Cigno, Furio Rosati and Zafiris Tzannatos

24080: Social protection and the informal sector in developing countries: challenges and opportunities

R. Sudharshan Canagarajah and S.V. Sethuraman

24079: Chile's pension reform after twenty years

Rodrigo Acuna R. and Augusto Iglesias P.

24078: Labor market regulation: international experience in promoting employment and social protection

Gordon Betcherman, Amy Luinstra and Makoto Ogawa

23308: The informal sector revisited: a synthesis across space and time

Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch, R. Sudharshan Canagarajah and Dhushyanth Raju

23307: Social services delivery through community-based projects

Dinah McLeod and Maurizia Tovo

23306: Earnings inequality in transition economies of Central Europetrends and patterns during the 1990s

Jan J. Rutkowski

23305: Viewing microinsurance as a social risk management instrument

Paul B. Siegel, Jeffrey Alwang and R. Sudharshan Canagarajah

23304: Vulnerability: a view from different disciplines

Jeffrey Alwang, Paul B. Siegel and Steen L. Jorgensen

23303: Individual accounts as social insurance: a World Bank perspective

Robert Holzmann and Robert Palacios

23302: Regulating private pension funds'structure, performance, and investments: cross-country evidence

P.S. Srinivas, Edward Whitehouse and Juan Yermo