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Lessons in Designing Safety Nets

This briefly examines some considerations when designing safety nets: a) local needs; b) financial and political sustainability; c) cost benefit analysis; and d) approach at targeting needy groups. Furthermore, it emphasizes that the poor must be i...

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Main Authors: Aiyar, Swaminathan S.A., Lateef, K. Sarwar, Subbarao, Kalanidhi
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
CASH TRANSFERS
CONFLICT
CREDIT PROGRAMS
DROUGHT
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ENERGY SUBSIDIES
EXCESS DEMAND
FOOD STAMPS
FORESTRY
INCENTIVE COSTS
INCOME
INFORMAL SAFETY NETS
INSURANCE
INTEREST RATES
OLD AGE
POLITICAL SUPPORT
POOR
POVERTY LINE
POVERTY LINES
POVERTY REDUCTION
PRICE SUBSIDIES
PRIVATE TRANSFERS
PRODUCTIVITY
PUBLIC WORKS
PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMS
SAFETY NETS
SAVINGS
SOCIAL ASSISTANCE
TARGETING
TRADEOFFS
UNEMPLOYMENT
UNIVERSAL SUBSIDIES
WAGES
WRITEOFFS POVERTY REDUCTION
SOCIAL SAFETY NETS
SAFETY NET POLICIES
POOR & GOVERNMENT POLICY
GROWTH POLICY
LABOR PRODUCTIVITY
MANPOWER NEEDS
LABOR PLANNING
FISCAL POLICY
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/1998/04/438767/lessons-designing-safety-nets
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11554

Internet

http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/1998/04/438767/lessons-designing-safety-nets
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11554

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