How Can Safety Nets Contribute to Economic Growth?

How Can Safety Nets Contribute to Economic Growth?

The paper provides an up-to date and selective review of the literature on how social safety nets contribute to growth. The evidence is carefully chosen to show how safety nets have the potential to overcome constraints on growth linked to market failures, and is organized into four distinct pathway...

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Main Authors: Alderman, Harold, Yemtsov, Ruslan
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2015
Subjects:
beneficiaries
cash transfer
economic growth
income
inequality
insurance
insurance market
international food policy
labor supply
market failure
political constraint
productive assets
public resource
public transfer
resource allocation
safety net
social policies
targeting
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22555

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http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22555

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