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Introducing basic social protection in low-income countries: Lessons from existing programmes

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  • Armando Barrientos

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This paper reviews the main lessons from existing social protection programmes in low-income countries for the development of social protection in these countries. It is taken for granted that introducing social protection in low income countries is that much harder due to constraints arising from underdevelopment, fragmented political and policy processes, reduced tax base, and weak administrative capacity. The paper examines existing social protection programmes in order to illuminate on the strength of these constraints, and the nature of potential remedies. The paper concludes that the experience of low-income countries shows there are many policy options available to them. It also concludes that while deficits in finance and operational capacity are much less tractable, global partnerships can work effectively to lift these constraints.

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  • Armando Barrientos, 2007. "Introducing basic social protection in low-income countries: Lessons from existing programmes," Global Development Institute Working Paper Series 0607, GDI, The University of Manchester.
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    1. Isaac Chinyoka, 2017. "Poverty, changing political regimes, and social cash transfers in Zimbabwe, 1980–2016," WIDER Working Paper Series 088, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    2. Isaac Chinyoka, 2017. "Poverty, changing political regimes, and social cash transfers in Zimbabwe, 1980-2016," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2017-88, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    3. Cruz-Martinez, Gibran, 2019. "Older‐Age Social Pensions and Poverty: Revisiting Assumptions on Targeting and Universalism," SocArXiv y9uk6, Center for Open Science.

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