How Can Safety Nets Contribute to Economic Growth?

The paper provides an up-to date and selective review of the literature on how social safety nets contribute to growth. The evidence is carefully chosen to show how safety nets have the potential to overcome constraints on growth linked to market failures, and is organized into four distinct pathway...

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Main Authors: Alderman, Harold, Yemtsov, Ruslan
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22555