Mali social safety nets

Cecile Cherrier, Carlo del Ninno and Setareh Razmara

No 89188, Social Protection Discussion Papers and Notes from The World Bank

Abstract: This report shows that Mali’s safety nets are insufficient to address the needs of the population and suggests ways to improve them. There is a need to devise a set of cost effective programs to expand the scope and coverage of the national safety net. Given that any reform plan must be financially feasible, the government must allocate its scarce resources to programs that are well targeted and efficient. Creating the fiscal room for safety nets will also depend on political will. The government needs to: (i) strengthen the strategic, institutional, and financial frameworks for designing, implementing, and monitoring and evaluating safety nets; and (ii) increase the effectiveness of the safety net system by strengthening existing programs and designing new ones.

Keywords: Safety Nets and Transfers; Rural Poverty Reduction; Regional Economic Development; Labor Policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-01-02
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