| | | List of Tables | | |
| | | List of Figures | | |
| | | List of Abbreviations | | |
| | | List of Web Resources | | |
| | | Glossary | | |
| | | Foreword by Frances Stewart | | |
| Pt. I | | Introduction | | |
| 1 | | Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest: An Introduction by Armando Barrientos and David Hulme | | 3 |
| Pt. II | | Conceptual Frameworks for Social Protection: Risks, Needs and Rights | | |
| 2 | | Risks, Needs and Rights: Compatible or Contradictory Bases for Social Protection by Lauchlan T. Munro | | 27 |
| 3 | | Insurance for the Poor? by Stefan Dercon and Tessa Bold and Cesar Calvo | | 47 |
| 4 | | Transformative Social Protection: The Currency of Social Justice by Rachel Sabates-Wheeler and Stephen Devereux | | 64 |
| 5 | | Poverty Traps and Natural Disasters in Ethopia and Honduras by Michael R. Carter and Peter D. Little and Tewodaj Mogues and Workneh Negatu | | 85 |
| Pt. III | | What Policies Work for the Poorest? | | |
| 6 | | Indonesias Social Protection during and after the Crisis by Sudarno Sumarto and Asep Suryahadi and Sami Bazzi | | 121 |
| 7 | | HIV/AIDS, Social Protection and Chronic Poverty by Rachel Slater | | 146 |
| 8 | | The Social Protection Function of Short-Term Public Works Programmes in the Context of Chronic Poverty by Anna McCord | | 160 |
| 9 | | The Emergence and Popularity of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America by Tatiana Feitosa de Britto | | 181 |
| 10 | | Assisting the Poorest in Bangladesh: Learning from BRACs Targeting the Ultra-poor Programme by David Hulme and Karen Moore | | 194 |
| 11 | | Protecting the Poorest with Cash Transfers in Low Income Countries by Bernd Schubert | | 211 |
| Pt. IV | | The Politics and Financing of Social Protection | | |
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