Adaptive Social Protection: Building Resilience to Shocks

by Thomas Bowen

Adaptive social protection (ASP) helps to build the resilience of poor and vulnerable households to the impacts of large, covariate shocks, such as natural disasters, economic crises, pandemics, conflict, and forced displacement. Through the provision of transfers and services directly to these households, ASP supports their capacity to prepare for, cope with, and adapt to the shocks they face--before, during, and after these shocks occur. Over...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1464815755
• ISBN13: 9781464815751
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"