Armando Barrientos

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Social Assistance in Developing Countries Database Version 5.0

Brooks World Poverty Institute Working Paper, Chronic Poverty Research Centre Working Paper
Number of pages: 137 Posted: 05 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 31 Jul 2014
Armando Barrientos, Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa and Mathilde Maitrot
Global Development Institute, UNU-WIDER and University of Bath
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Social Protection, Social Assistance, developing countries, poverty

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Social Transfers and Growth: A Review

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Social Transfers and Growth: A Review

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 20 Jan 2010
Armando Barrientos
Global Development Institute
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Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, Mozambique, social transfers, micro-credit

Social Transfers and Growth: A Review

Brooks World Poverty Institute Working Paper No. 52
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 09 Nov 2008
Armando Barrientos and James Scott
Global Development Institute and King’s College London
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Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, Mozambique, social transfers, micro-credit, education

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What is the Impact of Non-Contributory Pensions on Poverty? Estimates from Brazil and South Africa

Chronic Poverty Research Centre Working Paper No. 33
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 07 Feb 2011
Armando Barrientos
Global Development Institute
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policy, social protection, data, old age, South Africa, pensions, sub-Saharan Africa, Brazil, Latin America

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Social Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa: Will the Green Shoots Blossom?

Brooks World Poverty Institute Working Paper No. 116
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 02 May 2010
Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa, Armando Barrientos, David Hulme and Sam Hickey
UNU-WIDER, Global Development Institute, The University of Manchester - Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM) and The University of Manchester
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Social Protection, Poverty, Transfer Programmes, Sub-Saharan Africa

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Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest in Developing Countries: Reflections on a Quiet Revolution

Brooks World Poverty Institute Working Paper No. 30
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 10 Sep 2008
David Hulme and Armando Barrientos
The University of Manchester - Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM) and Global Development Institute
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social protection, vulnerability, human capital, productive assets, rightsbased

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Extending Social Assistance in China: Lessons from the Minimum Living Standard Scheme

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Extending Social Assistance in China: Lessons from the Minimum Living Standard Scheme

Chronic Poverty Research Centre Working Paper No. 67
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 03 Feb 2011
Jiandong Chen and Armando Barrientos
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics and Global Development Institute
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vulnerability, social protection, China

Extending Social Assistance in China: Lessons from the Minimum Living Standard Scheme

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 19 Jan 2009
Jiandong Chen and Armando Barrientos
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics and Global Development Institute
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social assistance, urban poor, poverty line, social protection

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Does Vulnerability Create Poverty Traps?

Chronic Poverty Research Centre Working Paper No. 76
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 03 Feb 2011
Armando Barrientos
Global Development Institute
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social protection, risk

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Antipoverty Transfers and Labour Force Participation Effects

Brooks World Poverty Institute Working Paper No. 185
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 07 Jun 2013
Armando Barrientos and Juan Miguel Villa
Global Development Institute and The University of Manchester - Global Development Institute
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Conditional cash transfers, labour supply, regression discontinuity

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Financing Social Protection

Brooks World Poverty Institute Working Paper No. 05
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 06 Aug 2008
Armando Barrientos
Global Development Institute
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social protection, vulnerability, financing, insurance, savings

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Delivering Effective Social Assistance: Does Politics Matter?

Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre Working Paper 09
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 06 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2015
Armando Barrientos and Sony Pellissery
Global Development Institute and National Law School of India University
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India, Brazil, South Africa, social assistance, poverty, politics, Bolsa Familia, Bolsa Escola, NREGA

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Social Transfers and Chronic Poverty: Objectives, Design, Reach and Impact

Chronic Poverty Research Centre Report
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Armando Barrientos and Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa
Global Development Institute and UNU-WIDER
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social protection, chronic poverty, programme design

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Taxation, Redistribution and the Social Contract in Brazil

IRIBA Working Paper: 11
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 27 Sep 2014
Marcus Andre Melo, Armando Barrientos and André Coelho
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Global Development Institute and UFPE
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taxation, redistribution, social contract, governance, tax incidence

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The Role of Social Assistance in Reducing Poverty and Inequality in Asia and the Pacific

Asian Development Bank Sustainable Development Working Paper Series, No. 62. September 2019
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 18 Aug 2020
Armando Barrientos
Global Development Institute
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Social Assistance, Asia, Poverty, Inequality

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Introducing Basic Social Protection in Low-Income Countries: Lessons from Existing Programmes

Brooks World Poverty Institute Working Paper No. 6
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 06 Aug 2008
Armando Barrientos
Global Development Institute
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social protection, social exclusion, political constraints, low-income countries

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Social Transfers and Women's Labour Supply in Kyrgyzstan

Brooks World Poverty Institute Working Paper No. 215
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 16 Dec 2015
Armando Barrientos and Alma Kudebayeva
Global Development Institute and The University of Manchester - Global Development Institute
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Social transfers, labour supply, women, Kyrgyzstan

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What is the Role of Social Pensions in Asia?

ADBI Working Paper 351
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 13 Apr 2012
Armando Barrientos
Global Development Institute
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social pensions, population ageing, asia, social assistance, noncontributory transfers, contributory pension schemes

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Antipoverty Transfers and Inclusive Growth in Brazil

IRIBA Working Paper: 04
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 17 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2014
Armando Barrientos, Dario Debowicz and Ingrid Woolard
Global Development Institute, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester and University of Cape Town - Faculty of Commerce - School of Economics
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Social assistance, inclusive growth, Brazil

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Do Transfers Generate Local Economy Effects?

BWPI Working Paper No. 106
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 05 Feb 2010
Armando Barrientos and Rachel Sabates-Wheeler
Global Development Institute and University of Sussex - Institute of Development Studies
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Mexico, PROGRESA, social transfers, poverty, assets, food consumption

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Assessing Wellbeing and Deprivation in Later Life: A Multidimensional Counting Approach

BWPI Working Paper No. 151
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 01 Jul 2011
Armando Barrientos and Casilda Lasso de la Vega
Global Development Institute and University of the Basque Country - Department of Applied Economics IV
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multidimensional deprivation, pensions, South Africa, Brazil

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Is There a New Brazilian Model of Development? Main Findings from the IRIBA Research Programme

IRIBA Working Paper: 13
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 20 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2014
Edmund Amann and Armando Barrientos
The University of Manchester - Centre for Latin American Cultural Studies and Global Development Institute
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Brazil, inclusive growth, development, poverty

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A Decade of Poverty Reduction in Kazakhstan 2000-2009: Growth and/or Redistribution?

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 03 Oct 2013
Alma Kudebayeva and Armando Barrientos
The University of Manchester - Global Development Institute and Global Development Institute
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Kazakhstan, poverty, growth, redistribution

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Economic and Political Inclusion of Human Development Conditional Transfer Programmes in Latin America?

BWPI Working Paper 200
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 18 May 2014
Armando Barrientos and Juan Miguel Villa
Global Development Institute and The University of Manchester - Global Development Institute
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Social assistance, social protection, cash transfers, Latin America

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Should Poverty Researchers Worry About Inequality?

Brooks World Poverty Institute Working Paper No. 118
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 01 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2011
Armando Barrientos
Global Development Institute
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poverty, inequality, priority, sufficiency

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The Informational Basis of Emerging Social Assistance in Low and Middle-Income Countries

Barrientos, Armando (2018) The Informational Basis of Emerging Social Assistance in Low and Middle-Income Countries. GDI Working Paper 2018-023. Manchester: The University of Manchester.
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 21 Mar 2018
Armando Barrientos
Global Development Institute
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Social assistance; poverty; Low- and middle-income countries; Welfare institutions; Social protection

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Attitudes to Chronic Poverty in the 'Global Village'

GIGA Working Paper No. 134
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 20 May 2010 Last Revised: 20 Aug 2014
Armando Barrientos and Daniel Neff
Global Development Institute and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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attitudes, chronic poverty

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Does a General Theory of Welfare Institutions Explain the Expansion of Social Assistance in Low and Middle Income Countries?

SOCIUM SFB1342 WorkingPapers, 1, Bremen: SOCIUM, SFB1342, 2019
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 16 Aug 2020
Armando Barrientos
Global Development Institute
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Social Assistance, Low and Middle Income Countries, Social Policy

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Heterogeneity in Bolsa Família Outcomes

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 62, 2016
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 16 Dec 2016
Armando Barrientos, Dario Debowicz and Ingrid Woolard
Global Development Institute, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester and University of Cape Town - Faculty of Commerce - School of Economics
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Social assistance; Inclusive growth; Latin America; Brazil

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Is There a Role for Social Pensions in Asia?

Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies (APPS), 2014
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 08 Jan 2015
Armando Barrientos
Global Development Institute
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pensions; income security; poverty; old age

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Financing Social Protection for Children in Crisis Context

Development Policy Review (2011), Vol. 29, No. 5, pp 601-618. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7679.2011.00549.x
Posted: 24 Jul 2014
Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa and Armando Barrientos
UNU-WIDER and Global Development Institute

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Social protection, children, poverty, financial crisis, developing countries

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Social Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa. Getting the Politics Right

World Development (2012), Vol. 40, No. 1. DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.04.004
Posted: 24 Jul 2014
Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa, Armando Barrientos, David Hulme and Sam Hickey
UNU-WIDER, Global Development Institute, The University of Manchester - Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM) and The University of Manchester

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social protection, poverty, social assistance, social policy, Sub-Saharan Africa

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Poverty Transitions Among Older Households in Brazil and South Africa

European Journal of Development Research, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 570–588
Posted: 01 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 01 Jan 2015
Armando Barrientos and Julia Mase
Global Development Institute and Brooks World Poverty Institute

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poverty, poverty transitions, old age, Brazil, South Africa

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Reforming Health Insurance in Argentina and Chile

Posted: 09 Feb 2001
Armando Barrientos and Peter Lloyd-Sherlock
Global Development Institute and University of East Anglia (UEA)

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Labor Market and Trade Liberalization and Women's Employment in Chile

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Labor Market and Trade Liberalization and Women's Employment in Chile

Posted: 03 Feb 1998
Armando Barrientos and Stephanie Barrientos
Global Development Institute and University of Hertfordshire

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Labor Market and Trade Liberalization and Women's Employment in Chile

Posted: 03 Feb 1998
Armando Barrientos and Stephanie Barrientos
Global Development Institute and University of Hertfordshire

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