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  • For Protection and Promotion

    The Design and Implementation of Effective Safety Nets

    Safety nets are noncontributory transfer programs targeted to the poor or vulnerable. They play important roles in social policy. Safety nets redistribute income, thereby immediately reducing poverty and inequality; they enable households to invest in the human capital of their children and in the livelihoods of their earners; they help households manage risk, both ex ante and ex post; and they ... Read more

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  • Revisiting Targeting in Social Assistance

    A New Look at Old Dilemmas

    Series series Human Development Perspectives
    Targeting is a commonly used but much debated policy within global social assistance practice. This book examines the well-known dilemmas in light of the growing body of experience, new implementation capacities, and the potential to bring new data and data science to bear. ... Read more

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  • Income Support for the Poorest

    A Review of Experience in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

    Series series Directions in Development - Human Development
    This study reviews the role and workings, with their strengths and weaknesses of last-resort income support (LRIS) programs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It draws on a combination of household survey and administrative data for a large group of countries and detailed case studies for a smaller number of countries that span the spectrum of the income range in the region. It thus combines the ... Read more

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  • For Protection And Promotion: The Design And Implementation Of Effective Safety Nets

    Safety nets are noncontributory transfer programs targeted to the poor or vulnerable. They play important roles in social policy. Safety nets redistribute income, thereby immediately reducing poverty and inequality; they enable households to invest in the human capital of their children and in the livelihoods of their earners; they help households manage risk, both ex ante and ex post; and they ... Read more

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