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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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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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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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Federal Spending on Social Assistance Programs in Brazil
World Bank Group - 2018
The development of Brazil's modern social safety net is quite recent, and social assistance programs claim a relatively small share of resources of the broader social sector. A key feature of the Brazilian social protection system is the duality between formal sector workers, who gained social...
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Pathways to Reducing Poverty and Sharing Prosperity in India : Schemes to Systems - Lessons from Social Protection in India
World Bank Group - 2019
countries like India aspire to grow further and navigate a phase of rapid economic transformation, investments in social … articles take stock of India's major social protection programs, including pension programs, health insurance, the public …-poverty measures in India and indeed the world, while the former are relatively new instruments for unorganized workers. However, these …
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Special Economic Zones : An Operational Review of Their Impacts
World Bank Group - 2017
Policy-makers across developing economies are implementing different forms of special economic zones (SEZs): programs intended to catalyze economic growth. The SEZ program is aimed at attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) to increase firm-level investment and improve firm-level productivity...
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The Role of Digital in the COVID-19 Social Assistance Response
World Bank Group - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in vast numbers of people in need of social assistance, many of whom were not previously covered by social safety nets. To meet this unprecedented level of need, governments quickly scaled social assistance reaching over 1.7 billion people in low- and middle income...
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Social Protection Response to the COVID-19 Crisis in the Dominican Republic
World Bank Group - 2021
and businesses and prevent employment losses as a response to the Coronavirus disease SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) health and …
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The Distributional Impact of COVID-19 Fiscal Policies on Households, with Emphasis on Da Nang City
World Bank Group - 2021
(coronavirus) crisis in Da Nang city and nationally in Vietnam. More specifically, we look at the social assistance (cash transfer …
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