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33985: Household's vulnerability to shocks in Zambia

Carlo Del Ninno and Alessandra Marini

33407: Managing public pension reserves Part II: lessons from five recent OECD initiatives

Robert Palacios

32762: Implementing means-tested welfare systems in the United States

Kathy Lindert

32759: Targeting social spending to the poor with proxy - means testing: Colombia's SISBEN system

Tarsicio Castaneda

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

32751: Delivery mechanisms of cash transfer programs to the poor in Bangladesh

Shaikh Shamsuddin Ahmed

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

32547: A guide to multisector labor market models

Gary S. Fields

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

32543: Can conditional cash transfer programs improve social risk management? Lessons for education and child labor outcomes

Frederico S. Finan, Alain F. De Janvry, Elisabeth Marie L. Sadoulet and Renos Vakis

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

30168: Measuring welfare for small but vulnerable groups: poverty and disability in Uganda

Johannes G. Hoogeveen and Johannes G. Hoogeveen

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