poverty in the global South. These programmes currently reach more than 860 million people worldwide. This paper focuses on … three policy questions: first, do programme objectives address chronic poverty? Second, are programme design features – the … social transfers encourages strong expectations on its potential role in addressing long-term poverty, but that this can only …

insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality … ; social assistance ; social protection ; poverty ; inequality …