Document Abstract
Published:
2002
Social protection for the poor: lessons learnt from recent international experience
What works best for targeting social protection for the poor?
This paper synthesises current thinking and evidence on a number of issues around the design and impact of social protection programmes, including:
- the case for and against targeting resource transfers;
- alternative approaches to targeting;
- what form resource transfers should take (cash, food, agricultural inputs);
- the 'crowding out' debate;
- cost-efficiency of transfer programmes; whether thse programmes meet the real and articulated needs of their 'beneficiaries';
- impacts on poverty and vulnerability, and fiscal and political sustainability.
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