Regional social protection mechanisms

Regional trends, issues and practices in urban poverty reduction Social Protection in Asian Cities Regional Trends, Issues and Practices in Urban Poverty Reduction Social Protection in Asian Cities

Policy Paper on Social Protection - Theme Papers on Social Protection

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Social Protection Panel

The specific objective of the social protection panel is to identify the main social protection challenges that the region faces as a consequence of the increase in economic and social insecurity due to the severe crisis that the region is currently facing. We were also told to identify the principal impacts of recent adverse shocks to the region, including the September 11 events, and measure ...

Protection and Social Order

Consider a simple world populated with two types of individuals, those who work and create wealth (peasants) and those who steal the property of others (bandits). With bandits about, peasants need to protect their output and can do so individually or collectively. But either way protection is costly; it consumes resources and interferes with an individual’s ability to create wealth. This study ...

Social Protection as Social Risk Management: Conceptual Underpinnings for the Social Protection Sector Strategy Paper

Social Protection Discussion Papers are not formal publications of the World Bank. They present preliminary and unpolished results of analysis that are circulated to encourage discussion and comment; citation and the use of such a paper should take account of its provisional character. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the author(s) and...