Social protection for the poor and poorest :  concepts, policies and politics / 
edited by Armando Barrientos and David Hulme. 
 - Basingstoke [England] ;  New York :  Palgrave Macmillan,  2008. 
 - xxiii, 344 p. :  ill. ;  22 cm. 
 - Palgrave studies in development .
<br/><br/> "In association with the Brooks World Poverty Institute at the University of Manchester and the Chronic Poverty Research Centre." 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes web resources. 
<br/><br/> Social protection for the poor and poorest : an introduction /  Risks, needs and rights : compatible or contradictory bases for social protection /  Insurance for the poor? /  Transformative social protection : the currency of social justice /  Poverty traps and natural disasters in Ethiopia and Honduras /  Indonesia's social protection during and after the crisis /  HIV/AIDS, social protection and chronic poverty /  The social protection function of short-term public works programmes in the context of chronic poverty /  The emergence and popularity of conditional cash transfers in Latin America /  Assisting the poorest in Bangladesh : learning from BRAC's 'targeting the ultra-poor' programme /  Protecting the poorest with cash transfers in low income countries /  Process deficits in the provision of social protection in rural Maharashtra /  Conceptualising the politics of social protection in Africa /  Political incumbency and drought relief in Africa /  Can low income countries in sub-Saharan Africa afford basic social protection? First results of a modelling exercise /  Financing social protection /  Embedding social protection in the developing world /  Armando Barrientos and David Hulme --  Lauchlan T. Munro --  Stefan Dercon, Tessa Bold and Cesar Calvo --  Rachel Sabates-Wheeler and Stephen Devereux --  Michael R. Carter, Peter D. Little, Tewodaj Mogues and Workneh Negatu --  Sudarno Sumarto, Asep Suryahadi and Sami Bazzi --  Rachel Slater --  Anna McCord --  Tatiana Feitosa de Britto --  David Hulme and Karen Moore --  Bernd Schubert --  Sony Pellissery --  Sam Hickey --  Ngonidzashe Munemo --  Christina Behrendt --  Armando Barrientos --  Armando Barrientos and David Hulme. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>023052530X (alk. paper) 9780230525306 (hdbk) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008000185 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social security.<br/>Public welfare.<br/>Poverty.<br/>Poor--Services for.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD7091  / .S547 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>362.5