Social protection for equity and growth
By: [Poverty and Inequality Advisory Unit ; authors, Nora Lustig ... et al].
Contributors: Lustig, Nora.; Inter-American Development Bank. Poverty and Inequality Advisory Unit.
Publisher: Inter-American Development Bank; Distributed by the Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Washington, DC; Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Social security -- Latin America.; Public welfare -- Latin America.; Poor -- Services for -- Latin America.; Latin America -- Social policy.
Description: "Social Protection for Equity and Growth provides policy recommendations to reduce the economic vulnerability of the poor to shocks and help them cope with downturns in income. Social protection refers to public interventions - including labor market measures, social safety nets, pension systems and calamity funds - that can lessen the impact of these sudden events. They target low-income groups with precarious employment conditions or limited access to social security or other insurance systems.

These groups often live near the subsistence level and lack the economic or political power to push for policies that can respond to their needs during times of crisis."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.