Designing and evaluating social safety nets: theory, evidence, and policy conclusions
Developing countries urgently require a more effective poverty alleviation strategy. The emerging consensus is that renewed broadbased economic growth is a necessary condition for alleviating poverty, but in isolation this is insufficient. Effective social safety nets are also important components o...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2004
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| author | Coady, David |
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| description | Developing countries urgently require a more effective poverty alleviation strategy. The emerging consensus is that renewed broadbased economic growth is a necessary condition for alleviating poverty, but in isolation this is insufficient. Effective social safety nets are also important components of any comprehensive poverty alleviation strategy. Existing social safety nets, however, suffer from shortcomings: they often fail to reach the intended target group, they fail to generate a sustained decrease in poverty, they often involve many uncoordinated or duplicative transfer programs, they can be inefficient and costly, and the transfers are often too small. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1573852025-01-10T06:36:05Z Designing and evaluating social safety nets: theory, evidence, and policy conclusions Coady, David safety equipment evaluation food aid community participation public works social policies income distribution poverty alleviation social protection Developing countries urgently require a more effective poverty alleviation strategy. The emerging consensus is that renewed broadbased economic growth is a necessary condition for alleviating poverty, but in isolation this is insufficient. Effective social safety nets are also important components of any comprehensive poverty alleviation strategy. Existing social safety nets, however, suffer from shortcomings: they often fail to reach the intended target group, they fail to generate a sustained decrease in poverty, they often involve many uncoordinated or duplicative transfer programs, they can be inefficient and costly, and the transfers are often too small. 2004 2024-10-24T12:49:24Z 2024-10-24T12:49:24Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157385 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Coady, David. 2004. Designing and evaluating social safety nets: theory, evidence, and policy conclusions. FCND Discussion Paper Brief. 172. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157385 |
| spellingShingle | safety equipment evaluation food aid community participation public works social policies income distribution poverty alleviation social protection Coady, David Designing and evaluating social safety nets: theory, evidence, and policy conclusions |
| title | Designing and evaluating social safety nets: theory, evidence, and policy conclusions |
| title_full | Designing and evaluating social safety nets: theory, evidence, and policy conclusions |
| title_fullStr | Designing and evaluating social safety nets: theory, evidence, and policy conclusions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Designing and evaluating social safety nets: theory, evidence, and policy conclusions |
| title_short | Designing and evaluating social safety nets: theory, evidence, and policy conclusions |
| title_sort | designing and evaluating social safety nets theory evidence and policy conclusions |
| topic | safety equipment evaluation food aid community participation public works social policies income distribution poverty alleviation social protection |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157385 |
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