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Productive Role of Safety Nets

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dc.contributor.authorAlderman, Harold
dc.contributor.authorYemtsov, Ruslan
dc.date.accessioned2013-05-28T15:12:26Z
dc.date.available2013-05-28T15:12:26Z
dc.date.issued2012-03
dc.description.abstractThe paper contains a framework for linking social protection with growth and productivity, an updated review of the literature, new original work filling in gaps in the available evidence, and a discussion of operational implications. The paper demonstrates that there was a shift in the economists' view on social protection, and now they are seen as a force that can make a positive contribution towards economic growth and reduce poverty. The paper looks at pathways in which social protection programs (social insurance and social assistance programs, as well as labor programs) can support better growth outcomes: (i) individual level (building and protecting human capital, and other productive assets, empowering poor individuals to invest or to adopt higher return strategies), (ii) local economy effects (enhancing community assets and infrastructure, positive spillovers from beneficiaries to non-beneficiaries), (iii) overall economy level (acting as stabilizers of aggregate demand, improving social cohesion and making growth?enhancing reforms more politically feasible). Most social protection programs affect growth through all of these pathways. But the evidence is very uneven; and there are knowledge gaps. The paper discusses operational implications for the design and implementation of Social Protection (SP) programs and proposes a work program for addressing knowledge gaps.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/03/15961860/productive-role-safety-nets-background-paper-world-bank-2012-2022-social-protection-labor-strategy
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/13551
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/13551
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSocial Protection and Labor Discussion Paper;No. 1203
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectCOMMUNITY ASSETS
dc.subjectECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subjectEMPOWERING THE POOR
dc.subjectHUMAN CAPITAL
dc.subjectINFRASTRUCTURE
dc.subjectKNOWLEDGE GAPS
dc.subjectPOVERTY REDUCTION
dc.subjectSAFETY NETS
dc.subjectSOCIAL COHESION
dc.subjectSOCIAL PROTECTION
dc.titleProductive Role of Safety Netsen
dspace.entity.typePublication
okr.crosscuttingsolutionareaJobs
okr.date.disclosure2012-03-22
okr.date.doiregistration2025-05-05T11:47:07.135772Z
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Working Paper
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/03/15961860/productive-role-safety-nets-background-paper-world-bank-2012-2022-social-protection-labor-strategy
okr.globalpracticeSocial Protection and Labor
okr.globalpracticePoverty
okr.globalpracticeFinance and Markets
okr.guid338111468336856525
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum000333037_20120322011452
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum15961860
okr.identifier.report67609
okr.language.supporteden
okr.pdfurlhttp://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2012/03/22/000333037_20120322011452/Rendered/PDF/676090NWP012030Box367885B00PUBLIC0.pdfen
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Safety Nets and Transfers
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Labor Policies
okr.topicFinance and Financial Sector Development::Debt Markets
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Rural Poverty Reduction
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Achieving Shared Growth
okr.unitSocial Protection Team (HDNSP)
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