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Nepal Social Protection : Review of Public Expenditure and Assessment of Social Assistance Programs, Main Report FY11-FY20
World Bank Group - 2021
Nepal's recent transition to a federal state structure provides a historic juncture to realize the role that social protection can play in achieving the constitutional goals of equity, inclusion, and prosperity. The transition to a federal structure of governance and the promulgation of a new...
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Swaziland : Using Public Transfers to Reduce Extreme Poverty
World Bank Group - 2012
The report focuses on the social safety net, particularly cash and in-kind transfers. The safety net can play an important role in addressing poverty and vulnerability; however, the process by which the safety nets have been developed in Swaziland has produced a fragmented system that leaves...
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Uzbekistan Social Assistance Targeting Assessment
World Bank Group - 2019
This report presents the results of a diagnostic study on the targeting of social protection programs in Uzbekistan with a specific focus on low-income family allowances. The objective is to determine the extent to which current programs are reaching the poor and can reduce poverty, and...
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Poverty and Social Assistance in the Turkish Cypriot Community
World Bank Group - 2019
This report profiles poverty and assesses the performance of the social assistance (SA) system in the Turkish Cypriot community (TCc). The aim of this report is to provide information and evidence-based analysis to policy-makers on the determinants of poverty in the TCc and on the effectiveness...
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Niger Investing in Human Capital, Agricultural Productivity, and Social Protection for Faster Poverty Reduction : A Poverty Assessment
World Bank Group - 2021
Niger earns its foreign exchange mainly from uranium and gold, which has limited domestic economic linkages. Distant … pushed up to an additional people into poverty. Niger is further beset by vast infrastructure gaps, intensifying terrorism … reduction and steady gains in shared prosperity will require investments to bolster human capital, interventions to increase …
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Macroeconomic Management for Poverty Reduction : Chad, Mali, Niger
World Bank Group - 2016
Macroeconomic management in Chad, Mali and Niger needs to account for a number of specific parameters. Very rapid …
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South Africa : Social Assistance Programs and Systems Review
World Bank Group - 2021
Despite being an upper middle income country, South Africa's high inequality and the long-lasting legacies of apartheid mean that the country is faced with numerous development challenges, many of which are characteristic of countries with much lower incomes. This paper focuses on social...
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Sierra Leone Public Expenditure Review 2021 : Social Assistance Program
World Bank Group - 2021
Social protection is a critical policy instrument in Sierra Leone to address the multiple risks and vulnerabilities faced by citizens. Through the Medium-term National Development Plan for 2019-2023, the government of Sierra Leone (GoSL) stated its aim to expand social assistance to cover thirty...
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South Africa Social Assistance Programs and Systems Review : Policy Brief
World Bank Group - 2021
South Africa's social assistance system represents a major intervention by government in addressing the deprivation amongst the country's population. The system is extensive in terms of both the number of people it covers, directly and indirectly, as well as in terms of the amount of scarce...
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Towards a Comprehensive, Integrated, and Effective Social Assistance System in Indonesia
World Bank Group - 2017
Since 2010, the Government of Indonesia (GoI) has set official poverty reduction targets and emphasized the importance of a well-functioning social assistance system in continued poverty reduction. However, despite the efforts in expanding coverage of the social protection system, the pace of...
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