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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 of Latin America and Europe increasingly to nations in Africa, Asia and the Middle East - and today, over 130 developing countries have made i
Middle East--Social policy--21st century. --- Social security --- Economic assistance, Domestic --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Business & Economics --- Anti-poverty programs --- Government economic assistance --- Insurance, Social --- Insurance, State and compulsory --- Social insurance --- Economic policy --- National service --- Grants-in-aid --- Insurance --- Income maintenance programs --- Public welfare --- Poverty
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The report aims to meet two broad objectives: (a) enhance knowledge about the current state of existing social safety nets (SSNs) and assess their effectiveness in responding to new and emerging challenges to the poor and vulnerable in the region by bringing together new evidence, data, and country-specific analysis; and (b) open up and inform a debate on feasible policy options to make SSNs in the Middle East and North Africa more effective and innovative. The first chapter, 'a framework for SSN reform,' describes and illustrates the reasons for the region's growing need for SSN reform and es
Africa, North -- Economic policy -- 21st century. --- Africa, North -- Social policy -- 21st century. --- Middle East -- Economic policy -- 21st century. --- Middle East -- Social policy -- 21st century. --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Social Conditions --- Middle East --- Africa, North --- Social policy --- Economic policy --- Barbary States --- Maghreb --- Maghrib --- North Africa --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- Asia, West --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Orient
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