Foreword / Frances Stewart -- Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest: An Introduction / A.Barrientos & D.Hulme -- Risks, Needs and Rights: Compatible or Contradictory Bases for Social Protection? / L.Munro -- Insurance for the Poor? / S.Dercon, T. Bold & C. Calvo -- Transformative Social Protection: The Currency of Social Justice / S.Deveureux & R.Sabates-Wheeler -- Poverty Traps and Natural Disasters in Ethiopia and Honduras / M.Carter, P. Little, T. Mogues & W. Negatu -- Indonesia`s Social Protection during and after the Crisis / S.Sumarto, A. Suryahadi & S. Bazzi -- HIV/AIDS, Social Protection and Chronic Poverty / R.Slater -- The Social Protection Function of Short-term Public Works Programmes in the Context of Chronic Poverty / A.McCord -- The Emergence and Popularity of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America / T.Britto -- Assisting the Poorest in Bangladesh: Learning from BRAC`s `Targeting the Ultra Poor Programme` / D.Hulme & K.Moore -- Protecting the Poorest with Cash Transfers in Low Income Countries / B.Schubert -- Process Deficits in the Provision of Social Protection in Rural Maharashtra / S.Pellissery -- Conceptualising the Politics of Social Protection in Africa / S.Hickey -- Political Incumbency and Drought Relief in Africa / N. Munemo -- Can Low Income Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa Afford Basic Social Protection? First Results of a Modelling Exercise / C.Berendt -- Financing Social Protection / A.Barrientos -- Embedding Social Protection in the Developing World / A.Barrientos & D.Hulme.