Social protection for the poor and poorest : concepts, policies and politics

Social protection for the poor and poorest : an introduction / Armando Barrientos and David Hulme -- Risks, rights, and needs : compatible or contradictory bases for social protection? / Lauchlan T. Munro -- Insurance for the poor? / Stefan Dercon, Tessa Bold and Cesar Calvo -- Transformative social protection : the currency of social justice / Rachel Sabates-Wheeler and Stephen Devereux -- Poverty traps and natural disasters and assets in Ethiopia and Honduras / Michael R. Carter ... [et al.] -- Indonesia's social protection during and after the crisis / Sudarno Sumarto, Asep Suryahadi and Sami Bazzi -- HIV/AIDS, chronic poverty and social protection / Rachel Slater -- The social protection function of short-term public works programmes in the context of chronic poverty / Anna McCord -- The emergence and popularity of conditional cash transfers in Latin America / Tatiana Feitosa de Britto -- Assisting the poorest in Bangladesh : learning from BRAC's 'Targeting the ultra poor' programme / David Hulme and Karen Moore -- Protecting the poorest with cash transfers in low income countries / Bernd Schubert -- Process deficits in the provision of social protection in rural Maharashtra / Sony Pellisery -- Conceptualising the politics of social protection in Africa / Sam Hickey -- Political incumbency and drought relief in Africa / Ngonidzashe Munemo -- Can low income countries in Sub-Saharan Africa afford basic social protection? First results of a modelling exercise / Christina Behrendt -- Financing social protection / Armando Barrientos -- Embedding social protection in the developing world / Armando Barrientos and David Hulme