The State of Social Safety Nets 2015

by The World Bank and World Bank Group

Over the last decade, a policy revolution has been underway in the developing and emerging world. Country after country is systematically providing non-contributory transfers to poor and vulnerable people, in order to protect them against economic shocks and to enable them to invest in themselves and their children. Social safety nets or social transfers, as these are called, have spread rapidly from their early prominence in the middle-income countries...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1464805431
• ISBN13: 9781464805431
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.4" x 10.9"