Many national and international policies are oriented to tackle child deprivation and poverty issues. This is to ensure children's development and protection. However, it is seldom that these policies have high enough priority on the policy agenda or are often neglected and overlooked. Ideally public policy should promote integrated and holistic policies that address the multidimensional needs of children, women and families.

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In the context of significant international attention on poverty reduction and realizing the Millennium Development Goals, social protection mechanisms are increasingly seen as an important policy tool to tackle poverty, vulnerability and social exclusion.2 Within the broad field of social protection, cash transfers are instruments attracting much interest and attention, and have been particularly pioneered in Latin America. Peru, recently followed the example of Mexico, Chile, Brazil and Honduras by...

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One of the main dilemmas of this new millennium is the growing number of people who do not have access to basic services (health, education, safe water, and shelter), social protection and a minimum income worldwide. This constitutes a real paradox in face of the enormous global economic growth and technological revolution.

This paradox can only be explained because of the extreme concentration of wealth and power, resulting from...

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