Sourcebook On The Foundations Of Social Protection Delivery Systems

Author : Kathy Lindert,Tina George Karippacheril,Inés Rodríguez Caillava,Kenichi Nishikawa Chávez
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464815782

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Sourcebook on the Foundations of Social Protection Delivery Systems by Kathy Lindert,Tina George Karippacheril,Inés Rodríguez Caillava,Kenichi Nishikawa Chávez Pdf

The Sourcebook on the Foundations of Social Protection Delivery Systems synthesizes real-world experiences and lessons learned of social protection delivery systems from around the globe. It takes a broad view of social protection, covering various intended populations such as poor or low-income families, unemployed workers, persons with disabilities, and individuals facing social risks. It discusses many types of interventions that governments provide to individuals, families, or households, including categorical programs, poverty-targeted programs, labor benefits and services, disability benefits and services, and social services. The Sourcebook seeks to address concrete “how-to†? questions, including: • How do countries deliver social protection benefits and services? • How do they do so effectively and efficiently? • How do they ensure dynamic inclusion, especially for the most vulnerable and needy? • How do they promote better coordination and integration—not only among social protection programs but also among programs in other parts of government? • How can they meet the needs of their intended populations and provide a better client experience? The delivery systems framework elaborates on the key elements of that operating environment. The framework is anchored in core implementation phases along the delivery chain. Key actors, including people and institutions, interact all along that delivery chain. Those interactions are facilitated by communications, information systems, and technology. This framework can apply to the delivery of one or many programs and to the delivery of adaptive social protection. The Sourcebook structures itself around eight key principles that can frame the delivery systems mind-set: 1. There is no single blueprint for delivery systems, but there are commonalities, and those common elements constitute the core of the delivery systems framework. 2. Quality of implementation matters, and weaknesses in any of the core elements will negatively affect the entire system, reducing the impacts of the program(s) they support. 3. Delivery systems evolve over time, in a nonlinear fashion, and their starting points matter. 4. Efforts should be made to “keep it simple†? and to “do simple well,†? from the start. 5. The “first mile†?—people’s direct interface with administrative functions—is often the weakest link in the delivery chain; improving it may take systemic change but will greatly improve overall efficiencies and mitigate the risk of failures on the frontlines. 6. Social protection programs do not operate in a vacuum, and thus their delivery systems should not be developed in silos; synergies across institutions and information systems are possible and can improve program outcomes. 7. Social protection delivery systems can contribute more broadly to government’s ability to serve other sectors, such as health insurance subsidies, scholarships, social energy tariffs, housing benefits, and legal services. 8. The dual challenges of inclusion and coordination are pervasive and perennial and encourage the continuous improvement of delivery systems, through a dynamic, integrated, and human-centered approach.

Author : Kathy Lindert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : OCLC:1329649792

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Sourcebook on the Foundations of Social Protection Delivery Systems by Kathy Lindert Pdf

Author : Thomas Bowen,Carlo del Ninno,Colin Andrews,Sarah Coll-Black,Kelly Johnson,Yasuhiro Kawasoe,Adea Kryeziu,Barry Maher,Asha Williams
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781464815751

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Adaptive Social Protection by Thomas Bowen,Carlo del Ninno,Colin Andrews,Sarah Coll-Black,Kelly Johnson,Yasuhiro Kawasoe,Adea Kryeziu,Barry Maher,Asha Williams Pdf

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 the long term, by supporting these three capacities, ASP can provide a pathway to a more resilient state for households that may otherwise lack the resources to move out of chronically vulnerable situations. Adaptive Social Protection: Building Resilience to Shocks outlines an organizing framework for the design and implementation of ASP, providing insights into the ways in which social protection systems can be made more capable of building household resilience. By way of its four building blocks—programs, information, finance, and institutional arrangements and partnerships—the framework highlights both the elements of existing social protection systems that are the cornerstones for building household resilience, as well as the additional investments that are central to enhancing their ability to generate these outcomes. In this report, the ASP framework and its building blocks have been elaborated primarily in relation to natural disasters and associated climate change. Nevertheless, many of the priorities identified within each building block are also pertinent to the design and implementation of ASP across other types of shocks, providing a foundation for a structured approach to the advancement of this rapidly evolving and complex agenda.

Author : Schüring, Esther,Loewe, Markus
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839109119

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Handbook on Social Protection Systems by Schüring, Esther,Loewe, Markus Pdf

This exciting and innovative Handbook provides readers with a comprehensive and globally relevant overview of the instruments, actors and design features of social protection systems, as well as their application and impacts in practice. It is the first book that centres around system building globally, a theme that has gained political importance yet has received relatively little attention in academia.

Author : Ugo Gentilini,Margaret Grosh,Jamele Rigolini,Ruslan Yemtsov
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781464815119

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Exploring Universal Basic Income by Ugo Gentilini,Margaret Grosh,Jamele Rigolini,Ruslan Yemtsov Pdf

Universal basic income (UBI) is emerging as one of the most hotly debated issues in development and social protection policy. But what are the features of UBI? What is it meant to achieve? How do we know, and what don’t we know, about its performance? What does it take to implement it in practice? Drawing from global evidence, literature, and survey data, this volume provides a framework to elucidate issues and trade-offs in UBI with a view to help inform choices around its appropriateness and feasibility in different contexts. Specifically, the book examines how UBI differs from or complements other social assistance programs in terms of objectives, coverage, incidence, adequacy, incentives, effects on poverty and inequality, financing, political economy, and implementation. It also reviews past and current country experiences, surveys the full range of existing policy proposals, provides original results from micro†“tax benefit simulations, and sets out a range of considerations around the analytics and practice of UBI.

Author : Ezekiel Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1639892184

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Foundations of Social Protection: Politics and System by Ezekiel Jones Pdf

Social protection is a range of policies meant for the prevention, management, and overcoming of situations that adversely affect the well-being of individuals and families. It consists of programs designed to reduce the lifelong consequences of poverty and vulnerability. The policies are undertaken by promoting efficient labour markets, diminishing exposure to risks, and enhancing the capacity to manage economic and social risks. These risks include unemployment, sickness, disability and old age. Labour market interventions, social insurance and social assistance are the most common types of social protection. The objective of this book is to give a general view of the different areas of social protection, and its applications. It provides significant information of this discipline to help develop a good understanding of the challenges, responses and impacts of social protection. Those with an interest in this field would find this book helpful.

Author : Emily Weedon Chapman,The World Bank,Margaux Vinez
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464820205

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Working Today for a Better Tomorrow in Ethiopia by Emily Weedon Chapman,The World Bank,Margaux Vinez Pdf

Ethiopia has long prioritized creating more and better jobs as core to its sustainable and inclusive development. However, steady growth in the gross domestic product and gains in agricultural productivity in recent decades have not translated into better opportunities nor increased earnings for much of the population. The 2021 Labor Force Survey data reveal labor trends since 1999 and underscore these realities. Moreover, COVID-19 and other shocks have reinforced the disconnect between positive macroeconomic trends at a national level and stagnant incomes at the household level. Working Today for a Better Tomorrow in Ethiopia: Jobs for Poor and Vulnerable Households outlines how Ethiopia can leverage its social safety net programs to help poor and vulnerable workers earn more in today’s labor market. The government’s latest development planning policies focus on private sector growth and structural transformation to create more and better jobs. While these long-term reforms take hold, the jobs agenda also must include near-term measures to improve worker productivity in and connect people to jobs that already exist. Complementing cash transfers with capital, training, and other services can help workers earn more in their current work, diversify into new types of employment, or connect to available wage jobs.These investments can have an immediate impact for poor people in Ethiopia while also contributing to sustainable and inclusive development.

Author : Margaret Grosh,Phillippe Leite,Matthew Wai-Poi,Emil Tesliuc
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464818158

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Revisiting Targeting in Social Assistance by Margaret Grosh,Phillippe Leite,Matthew Wai-Poi,Emil Tesliuc Pdf

Targeting is a commonly used, but much debated, policy tool within global social assistance practice. Revisiting Targeting in Social Assistance: A New Look at Old Dilemmas examines the well-known dilemmas in light of the growing body of experience, new implementation capacities, and the potential to bring new data and data science to bear. The book begins by considering why or whether or how narrowly or broadly to target different parts of social assistance and updates the global empirics around the outcomes and costs of targeting. It illustrates the choices that must be made in moving from an abstract vision to implementable definitions and procedures, and in deciding how the choices should be informed by values, empirics, and context. The importance of delivery systems and processes to distributional outcomes are emphasized, and many facets with room for improvement are discussed. The book also explores the choices between targeting methods and how differences in purposes and contexts shape those. The know-how with respect to the data and inference used by the different household-specific targeting methods is summarized and comprehensively updated, including a focus on “big data†? and machine learning. A primer on measurement issues is included. Key findings include the following: · Targeting selected categories, families, or individuals plays a valuable role within the framework of universal social protection. · Measuring the accuracy and cost of targeting can be done in many ways, and judicious choices require a range of metrics. · Weighing the relatively low costs of targeting against the potential gains is important. · Implementing inclusive delivery systems is critical for reducing errors of exclusion and inclusion. · Selecting and customizing the appropriate targeting method depends on purpose and context; there is no method preferred in all circumstances. · Leveraging advances in technology—ICT, big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning—can improve targeting accuracy, but they are not a panacea; better data matters more than sophistication in inference. · Targeting social protection should be a dynamic process.

Author : Cesar Calderon,Alaine Kabundi,Albert G. Zeufack,Kaleb Girma Abreha,Megumi Kubota,Dhushyanth Raju,Vijdan Korman,Woubet Kassa,Solomon Owusu
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781464818714

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Africa's Pulse, No. 25, April 2022 by Cesar Calderon,Alaine Kabundi,Albert G. Zeufack,Kaleb Girma Abreha,Megumi Kubota,Dhushyanth Raju,Vijdan Korman,Woubet Kassa,Solomon Owusu Pdf

Sub-Saharan Africa's recovery from the pandemic is expected to decelerate in 2022 amid a slowdown in global economic activity, continued supply constraints, outbreaks of new coronavirus variants, climatic shocks, high inflation, and rising financial risks due to high and increasingly vulnerable debt levels. The war in Ukraine has exacerbated the already existing tensions and vulnerabilities affecting the continent. Given the sources of growth in the region and the nature of the economic linkages with Russia and Ukraine, the war in Ukraine might have a marginal impact on economic growth and on overall poverty—as this shock affects mostly the urban poor and vulnerable people living just above the poverty line. However, its largest impact is on the increasing likelihood of civil strife as a result of food- and energy-fueled inflation amid an environment of heightened political instability. The looming threats of stagflation require a two-pronged strategy that combines short-term measures to contain inflationary pressures and medium-to-long-term policies that accelerate the structural transformation and create more and better jobs. In response to supply shocks, monetary policy in the region may prove ineffective to bring down inflation and other short-run options may be restricted by the lack of fiscal space. Concessional financing might be key to helping countries alleviate the impact of food and fuel inflation. Over the medium term, avoiding stagflation may require a combination of actionable measures that improve the resilience of the economy by shoring up productivity and job creation. Lastly, ongoing actions to enhance social protection—including dynamic delivery systems for rapid scalability and shock-sensitive financing—could be strengthened further to improve economic resilience against shocks and foster investments in productive assets.

Author : Leila Patel,Sophie Plagerson,Isaac Chinyoka
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800378421

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Handbook on Social Protection and Social Development in the Global South by Leila Patel,Sophie Plagerson,Isaac Chinyoka Pdf

This cutting-edge Handbook argues for social protection to be situated in a wider system of social welfare and development programmes for low- and middle-income countries. Focusing on the role of citizens and communities in enhancing human development, it explores how welfare systems are unfolding in diverse contexts across the global South.

Author : Maurizio Bussolo,Siddharth Sharma
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464818363

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Hidden Potential by Maurizio Bussolo,Siddharth Sharma Pdf

Informality remains widespread in South Asia despite decades of economic growth. The low earnings and high vulnerability in the informal sector make this a major development issue for the region. Yet, there is no consensus on its causes and consequences, with the debate polarized between a view that informality is a problem of regulatory evasion and should be eradicated, and another that equates informality with economic exclusion. Recent advances in analyzing informality as the outcome of firm dynamics in distorted economic environments can help reconcile them. Building on these advances, the approach adopted in this volume clarifies that there are different types of informality, with different drivers and consequences. The report has four main messages that underscore the need for a multipronged strategy. First, informality in South Asia is dominated by firms that happen to be outside the purview of regulations because they are small, as opposed to those that remain small to escape regulations. Second, reforms of business regulations tend to have small direct effects on the informal sector, although they could have sizable indirect impacts on it if they succeed in removing major inefficiencies in the broader economy. Third, e-commerce platforms offer new opportunities to informal firms and workers, but many of them lack complementary skills or credit to benefit from such technologies. Fourth, a combination of contributory and non-contributory programs recognizing the heterogenous saving capacities of informal workers may be necessary to achieve more universal coverage of social insurance.

Author : Margaret Grosh,Carlo Del Ninno,Emil Tesliuc,Azedine Ouerghi
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821375822

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For Protection and Promotion by Margaret Grosh,Carlo Del Ninno,Emil Tesliuc,Azedine Ouerghi Pdf

Safety nets are noncontributory transfer programs targeted to the poor or vulnerable. They play important roles in social policy. Safety nets redistribute income, thereby immediately reducing poverty and inequality; they enable households to invest in the human capital of their children and in the livelihoods of their earners; they help households manage risk, both ex ante and ex post; and they allow governments to implement macroeconomic or sectoral reforms that support efficiency and growth. To be effective, safety nets must not only be well intended, but also well designed and well implemented. A good safety net system and its programs are tailored to country circumstances, adequate in their coverage and generosity, equitable, cost-effective, incentive compatible, and sustainable. Good safety nets are also dynamic and change over time as the economy changes or as management problems are solved and new standards are set. Drawing on a wealth of research, policy, and operational documents from both academia and the World Bank s work in over 100 countries, For Protection and Promotion provides pragmatic and informed guidance on how to design and implement safety nets, including useful information on how to define eligibility and select beneficiaries, set and pay benefits, and monitor and evaluate programs and systems. The book synthesizes the literature to date and enriches it with new examples on various program options cash transfers (conditional and unconditional), in-kind transfers, price subsidies, fee waivers, and public works. It concludes with a comprehensive diagnostic for fitting safety net systems and programs to specific circumstances.

Author : Udaya R. Wagle
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800882300

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Research Handbook on Poverty and Inequality by Udaya R. Wagle Pdf

Covering global, comparative, and single-country contexts, this Research Handbook presents wide-ranging, cutting-edge research on poverty and inequality. It maps out international trends in poverty and inequality and explores the key conceptual and operational frameworks, practical analyses, and policy applications and outcomes.

Author : The World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464819223

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The Long Road to Inclusive Institutions in Libya by The World Bank Pdf

This sourcebook compiles analytical work that has been cultivated over the past several years by the World Bank and partner organizations of Libya. Utilizing several analytical techniques, the book makes a unique contribution to the discussion on Libya's medium- to long-term challenges.

Author : International Monetary Fund
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781513575919

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The Global Informal Workforce by International Monetary Fund Pdf

The Global Informal Workforce is a fresh look at the informal economy around the world and its impact on the macroeconomy. The book covers interactions between the informal economy, labor and product markets, gender equality, fiscal institutions and outcomes, social protection, and financial inclusion. Informality is a widespread and persistent phenomenon that affects how fast economies can grow, develop, and provide decent economic opportunities for their populations. The COVID-19 pandemic has helped to uncover the vulnerabilities of the informal workforce.