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Last updated:
May 16, 2007
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Description:
REPOA’s Special Paper 06.19 will be of interest to those involved in research in the area of social protection, and to those who would like to gain an overview of the likely implications of addressing or not addressing social protection in a developing country.
The conceptual framework section of this paper begins with an overview of the emergence of social protection within the policy agenda, and continues with the following sections:
- Vulnerability and generalised insecurity
- Individualistic versus structural approaches to vulnerability and risk;
- The systematic and transformative nature of social protection, and
- The missing link: social protection and economic development.
The paper then gives a commentary on the themes of REPOA’s research programme on Social Protection:
- Protecting income against impoverishment: income transfers and consumption smoothing
- Preventing capability deprivation: enhancing human capabilities through social provisioning
- Social protection and the development of productive capabilities: labour, productivity and livelihoods across the informal/ formal divide,
and the cross-cutting theme of:
- Pro-poor growth and social protection: macro dimensions of generalised insecurity.
"Developing Social Protection in Tanzania within a Context of Generalised Insecurity" by Marc Wuyts
