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Cash Transfers and Livelihoods: How a New Scheme can Beat Poverty in Africa - Caulfield

Published: 16 April 2008

The Work and Employment Rights Research Centre (WERRC) at Monash University is pleased to invite you to a free public lecture.

Guy Standing - Monash Univeristy and University of Bath, UK.

For several decades, international donors and governments have refused to countenance the simplest way of all of responding to poverty in developing countries -- giving people money. Due in part to the changing nature of economic insecurity and the growing prevalence of social, economic and ecological shocks, recently this has begun to change, even in Africa.

This presentation will consider evidence from recent schemes and will describe how a new pilot voluntary initiative linked to the scourge of HIV/AIDS has been launched in one of the poorest regions of the African continent.

Date: Friday 18 April 2008
Time: 3.30pm - 5.00pm
Venue: Building H, Lecture Room 2.38, Caulfield campus (see the campus web page for a map and travel information.
RSVP: By Thursday, 17 April by email: werrc@buseco.monash.edu.au or by phone: +61 3 9903 4229. Event will be catered.

Guy Standing is Professor of Labour Economics and Associate Director of WERRC at Monash University, and Professor of Economic Security, University of Bath, England. Until 2005, he was Director of the Socio-Economic Security Programme of the International Labour Organisation, and before that the ILO’s Director of Labour Market Research. He has worked as adviser to various governments and has been a consultant for several international organisations such as the International Red Cross and the UNDP. He was the primary author of the United Nations’ 2007 Report on the World Social Situation. He is also co-chair of an international network, BIEN.