Shielding the Poor

Social Protection in the Developing World

• Author(s): Nora Lustig,
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Pages: 314
• ISBN_10: 0815753217
  ISBN_13: 9780815753216
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Development / Business Development , Business & Economics / Development / Economic Development , Political Science / General , Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare , Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy , Political Science / Public Policy / General , Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy , Social Science / General , Social Science / Disasters & Disaster Relief , Social Science / Developing & Emerging Countries , Social Science / Poverty & Homelessness ,

Description:... "Shielding the Poor presents a group of studies on social protection in the developing world from leading researchers. These studies address the issue of vulnerability of the poor to adverse shocks and propose policies to increase their protection and coping capacity. The studies emphasize the need for building permanent institutional structures that help reduce and manage to risks that households face as part of a coherent long-term strategy to reduce poverty and promote social equity." "Policy interventions that improve social protection not only help shield the poor from the adverse consequences of shocks but also boost economic growth and reduce chronic poverty over the longer term by reducing the perverse effects of these shocks on the human and physical capital of the poor and on the economic activities that they undertake."--BOOK JACKET.