WK 12.2. Reading Social protection and poverty

 In the last decade, social protection has emerged as a policy framework employed to address poverty and vulnerability in developing countries. This report has two main keys: to province an overview of social protection, and to provide an assessment of its potential contribution to addressing poverty and vulnerability in developing countries. It provides some preliminary definitions and tracks the emergence of social protection as a policy framework against a context of poverty and vulnerability trends in the 1980s and 1990s. Rising poverty and vulnerability following the 1980s in Latin America, the financial crises in 1997 In Asia, and the rapid economic transformation in transition economies demonstrated the need to establish strong and stable institutions directly concerned with reducing and preventing poverty and vulnerability. Furthermore, the extension of social protection in developing countries will require overcoming a number of constraints, which are more acute for low-income countries. The issue is long-term sustainability, as developing countries are not in a position to finance the extension of social protection through payroll taxes that was crucial to the emergence of the welfare state in developed countries.

What I find interesting is that, in the last decade and a half, there has been a great deal of innovation in social assistance programmes, and a marked increase in their reach. Regular and reliable social assistance programmes based around income transfers, but increasingly combining access to basic services and investment in human development, now reach a significant proportion of those in poverty in the South. 

Do you think that the impact on poverty and vulnerability of the extension of social protection under way in developing countries is not in doubt?

Hanane Ben Abdeslam

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