Public works and social protection in sub-Saharan Africa (Record no. 216505)
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| fixed length control field | 03183nam a2200373 a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 352.770967 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | McCord, Anna. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Public works and social protection in sub-Saharan Africa |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Tokyo ; |
| -- | New York : |
| Name of publisher | United Nations University Press, |
| Year of publication | 2012. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xxix, 224 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | "Published in 2012 in South Africa by UCT Press, an imprint of Juta and Company Ltd." |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Setting the scene : sub-Saharan African public works in context. The history of PWPs -- Public works programming in sub-Saharan Africa. Defining public works. The PWP typology -- The typology of PWPs in sub-Saharan Africa -- A schema of PWP objectives -- Poverty alleviation. The social protection function of public works programmes. Definition of social protection. Evaluating the performance of public works programmes. Current evaluation approaches. The impact of the wage. The transfer and stabilisation benefits of the wage -- The duration of the wage transfer -- The adequacy of the wage -- Malawi Social Action Fund (MASAF) PWP case study. The three vectors : assets. The value of assets created -- Social infrastructure -- The importance of asset production in different types of PWP -- Public works and social protection in sub-Saharan Africa. The three vectors : skills. -- Conceptual clarifications -- Are PWP an appropriate vehicle for skills development? -- Two South African case studies : context, methodology and analytical overview. The unemployment and social protection context -- Overview of the case study programmes. Assessing programme incidence. PWP access : targeting and rationing practices -- Incidence findings. Labour market findings. How to assess the labour market status of beneficiaries. The impact of programme participation on multi-dimensional aspects of poverty. Measuring the poverty impact -- Conclusion : re-evaluating the assumptions inherent in public works programmes. Problems with the current evidence base -- Why do PWPs remain so popular?. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Public works |
| Topical Term | Poverty |
| Topical Term | Poverty |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Villiers, Pauline de. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10752391 |
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