The number of crises affecting households' livelihoods is increasing worldwide. The note aims to inform the Social Protection and Labor (SPL) strategy 2012-2022 on how SPL practice in the World Bank can be more crisis-responsive, improving efficiency and...
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The food, fuel, and financial crises showed policymakers in low-income countries and fragile situations the value of having well-designed social protection programs in place prior to the crises. Subsequently, the demand for resilient social protection systems...
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The social protection and labor strategy 2012-2022 recognizes the potential of social protection as an integrated policy response for protecting populations against shocks, including the growing frequency of disasters. Safety net programs and social funds in...
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Across high, middle, and low income countries, the typology of activation and graduation programs and policies, and the principles that drive their design, have many similarities and remain relevant for individuals who are not receiving any type of transfer...
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This note reviews labor market trends in the developing world, identifies specific problems and policy priorities across groups of countries, and derives implications for the World Bank's work on labor and the new social protection and labor strategy for the...
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Social protection has long been considered instrumental in redistributing gains from growth to achieve greater equality and only recently has it been seen as a well-designed instrument contributing to higher growth. The background paper for this note provides...
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