Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest

Part I. Introduction

1. Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest: An Introduction
Armando Barrientos, David Hulme

Part II. Conceptual Frameworks for Social Protection: Risks, Needs and Rights

2. Risks, Needs and Rights: Compatible or Contradictory Bases for Social Protection
Lauchlan T. Munro

3. Insurance for the Poor?
Stefan Dercon, Tessa Bold, Cesar Calvo

4. Transformative Social Protection: The Currency of Social Justice
Rachel Sabates-Wheeler, Stephen Devereux

5. Poverty Traps and Natural Disasters in Ethiopia and Honduras
Michael R. Carter, Peter D. Little, Tewodaj Mogues, Workneh Negatu

Part III. What Policies Work for the Poorest?

6. Indonesia’s Social Protection during and after the Crisis
Sudarno Sumarto, Asep Suryahadi, Sami Bazzi

7. HIV/AIDS, Social Protection and Chronic Poverty
Rachel Slater

8. The Social Protection Function of Short-Term Public Works Programmes in the Context of Chronic Poverty
Anna Mccord

9. The Emergence and Popularity of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America
Tatiana Feitosa Britto

10. Assisting the Poorest in Bangladesh: Learning from BRAC’s ‘Targeting the Ultra-poor’ Programme
David Hulme, Karen Moore

11. Protecting the Poorest with Cash Transfers in Low Income Countries
Bernd Schubert

Part IV. The Politics and Financing of Social Protection

12. Process Deficits in the Provision of Social Protection in Rural Maharashtra
Sony Pellissery

13. Conceptualising the Politics of Social Protection in Africa
Sam Hickey

14. Political Incumbency and Drought Relief in Africa
Ngonidzashe Munemo

15. Can Low Income Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa Afford Basic Social Protection? First Results of a Modelling Exercise
Christina Behrendt

16. Financing Social Protection
Armando Barrientos

Part V. Conclusion

17. Embedding Social Protection in the Developing World
Armando Barrientos, David Hulme

Keywords: Social Sciences, Poverty, Aid and Development, Development Studies, Development Policy, Political Sociology, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Popular Science in Education