Mainstreaming Safety Nets in the Social Protection Policy Agenda: A New Vision or the Same Old Perspective?

Ugo Gentilini1 ()
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Ugo Gentilini1: University of Rome III, Rome, Italy

The Electronic Journal of Agricultural and Development Economics, 2005, vol. 2, issue 2, 133-157

Abstract: Social protection aims to provide a national platform for smoothly transitioning from a chaotic collection of shock responses to an institutionalized system for risk and non-risk management. For the poorest, the transition aims to move away from ad hoc, unpredictable relief to national safety nets that deliver timely, multi-year, guaranteed and predictable transfers. Social protection has to face particular challenges in chronically poor, shock-prone countries where the distinction between the chronic and transitory poor is often blurred. Other conceptual and programmatic issues also need further investigation. For filling these gaps, a research agenda articulated in ten thematic areas is proposed.

Keywords: vulnerability; risk; shocks; social protection; safety nets. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I32 Q10 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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