Social Protection Sector Strategy: From Safety Net to SpringboardWorld Bank Publications, 2001 M01 1 - 76 pages At the beginning of the new century, it is clear that while individual social programs can improve people's welfare and reduce poverty, a more holistic approach is needed in order to lift more people in the developing world out of poverty. This Social Protection Strategy paper reflects this understanding and uses 'social risk management' as an important conceptual framework for the World Bank's work in this sector. 'Social Protection Sector Strategy' is the first World Bank Strategy Paper for the social protection sector, at the time, one of the World Bank's youngest sectors. This paper highlights the need to expand the definition of social protection to encompass all public interventions that help individuals, households, and communities to manage risk or provide support to the critically poor. It recommends that social protection programs be embedded in an integrated approach to poverty reduction based on a new framework for social risk management. |
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Page 1936
... less concern about the risks ( a springboard ) . Such an approach provides the opportunity for people to move out of poverty while still providing support for those in most severe need . ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A team of technical specialists ...
... less concern about the risks ( a springboard ) . Such an approach provides the opportunity for people to move out of poverty while still providing support for those in most severe need . ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A team of technical specialists ...
Page 1941
... less access to effective risk management instruments than people with greater assets and endowments . This vulnerability makes individuals risk - averse and unwilling or unable to engage in high - risk / return activities . Under these ...
... less access to effective risk management instruments than people with greater assets and endowments . This vulnerability makes individuals risk - averse and unwilling or unable to engage in high - risk / return activities . Under these ...
Page 1942
From Safety Net to Springboard. in place , then households will be much less vulnerable and will be able to smooth their consumption patterns to a degree . This points toward a need to build greater awareness of the significance of risk ...
From Safety Net to Springboard. in place , then households will be much less vulnerable and will be able to smooth their consumption patterns to a degree . This points toward a need to build greater awareness of the significance of risk ...
Page 1945
... less global importance but which maintain high interest . The categorization of countries is dynamic and will be updated as situations change . Sub - Saharan Africa ( AFR ) possesses special challenges . The risks are numerous , severe ...
... less global importance but which maintain high interest . The categorization of countries is dynamic and will be updated as situations change . Sub - Saharan Africa ( AFR ) possesses special challenges . The risks are numerous , severe ...
Page 1956
... less on the symptoms and more on the causes of poverty by making it possible for poor people to engage in activities that have higher risks but also higher returns , and thus to avoid poverty traps . It takes account of reality . Less ...
... less on the symptoms and more on the causes of poverty by making it possible for poor people to engage in activities that have higher risks but also higher returns , and thus to avoid poverty traps . It takes account of reality . Less ...
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Page 1950 - We commit ourselves to promoting social integration by fostering societies that are stable, safe and just and that are based on the promotion .and protection of all human rights, as well as on non-discrimination, tolerance, respect for diversity, equality of opportunity, solidarity, security, and participation of all people, including disadvantaged and vulnerable groups and persons...
Page 1956 - What is it that distinguishes the thousands of years of history from what we think of as modern times? . . . the revolutionary idea that defines the boundary between modern times and the past is the mastery of risk; the notion that the future is more than a whim of the gods and that men and women are not passive before nature.
Page 1967 - Dynamic Risk Management and the Poor: Developing a Social Protection Strategy for Africa (April 2001).
Page 1999 - WORLD BANK (2000) Dynamic risk management and the poor: Developing a social protection strategy for Africa (draft), Human Development Group, Africa Region, Washington, BC: The World Bank.
Page 1954 - Bank's client countties and have, hy and large, heen effective. However, as the world has evolved, so has the need for the World Bank ro modify its approach ro social prorection.
Page 1997 - Gerting an Earful: A Review of Beneficiary Assessments of Social Funds.
Page 1958 - The sources of tisk may he natural (tor example, floods) or the result of human activity (for example, inflation resulting from economic polio-); tisks can he uncotrelared (idiosynctaric) or cotrelared among individuals (covatiant), over time (repeared), or with orher tisks (hunched).
Page 1959 - Since many of the tisks faced hy poor people are covatiant in nature, informal management mechanisms at the family or community level are typically nor very effective.
Page 1942 - Removing children from school is a common coping mechanism for poor households, hut it endangets the long-rerm porential of the children.
Page 1970 - If approptiare policies are in place in these areas, then households are much less vulnerahle.