For Protection and Promotion: The Design and Implementation of Effective Safety Nets

By Margaret E. Grosh, C. Ninno, E. Tesliuc, A. Ouerghi. 2008

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All countries fund safety net programs for the protection of their people. Though an increasing number of safety net programs are extremely well thought out, adroitly implemented, and demonstrably effective, many others are not. This book aims to assist those concerned with social policy to understand why countries need social assistance, what kind of safety programs will serve those best and how to develop such programs for maximum effectiveness. Safety nets are part of a broader poverty reduction strategy interacting with and working alongside of social insurance; health, education, and financial services; the provision of utilities and roads; and other policies aimed at reducing poverty and managing risk. Though useful, safety nets are not a panacea, and there are real concerns over whether they are affordable and administratively feasible or desirable in light of the various negative incentives they might create. In most settings where there is political will to do so, such concerns can be managed through a number of prudent design and implementation features. Much information and innovation exist on these topics; this book summarizes, references, and builds on this knowledge base to promote well-crafted safety nets and safety net policy.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Safety Research, Soil Science

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Cash, food, or vouchers? Evidence from a randomized experiment in northern Ecuador (2014, unknown): “Moreover, it is argued that less stigma is attached to cash transfers, which, compared with in-kind or near-cash transfers such as vouchers or food stamps, are less visible to non-beneficiaries (Grosh et al., 2008).”
Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest in Developing Countries: Reflections on a Quiet Revolution (2009, background): “There is also significant diversity in programme objectives and in the selection of participants (Barrientos et al., 2008; Grosh et al., 2008).”
Drought insurance for agricultural development and food security in dryland areas (2010, unknown): “3 See, for example, Grosh et al. (2008).”
Addressing Human Vulnerability to Climate Change: Toward a 'No Regrets' Approach (2009, unknown): “(Grosh et al, 2008).”
Direct and Indirect Effects of Malawi's Public Works Program on Food Security (2015, background): “1 Introduction Labor-intensive public works programs, sometimes referred to as workfare programs, are an important social protection tool in low-income settings (Grosh et al. 2008).”
Safeguarding food security in volatile global markets. (2011, methodology): “Savings from the elimination of general food subsidies were used to fund a Food Stamp Programme in Jamaica in the mid-1980s, and petroleum subsidies were converted into spending on health, education and cash transfers in Indonesia in 2005 (Grosh et al., 2008).”
Self-Targeting: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia (2016, background): “These two approaches to targeted social assistance programs – automatic screening based on a top-down survey or enrollment limited to those who actively apply – are the two most common ways of determining beneficiary lists for targeted transfer programs in the developing world (Grosh et al., 2008; K”
‘We Are All Poor Here’: Economic Difference, Social Divisiveness and Targeting Cash Transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa (2012, background): “Safety nets are the social transfer approach of choice of the World Bank (for example Grosh et al., 2008) and are widely used in Africa to tackle predictable seasonal hunger as well as the fallout from global or regional economic crises.”
The targeting effectiveness of social transfers (2017, background): “Targeting can absorb most of a programme’s administrative budget, but Grosh et al. (2008) found that administrative costs averaged only 8.5 per cent of total costs for 25 cash or near cash programmes; so, targeting is rarely prohibitively costly.”
Global Pension Systems and Their Reform: Worldwide Drivers, Trends, and Challenges (2012, unknown): “…simplest form, it is part of the social safety net that protects poor and vulnerable individuals of all ages through universal, means-tested, or conditional cash transfers; these instruments have been the revolution in low and middle income countries over the last decade (see Grosh et al. 2008).”