Resilience, Equity, and Opportunity

Risk and the quest for opportunity feature heavily in economic life in the 21st century. Sustained growth in many developing countries has pulled billions out of poverty and into the middle class; but this economic upturn has yet to reach billions...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Other Social Protection Study
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:	ACCESS TO SERVICES ACCOUNTABILITY ACCOUNTING ACTIVE LABOR ACTIVE LABOR MARKET ACTIVE LABOR MARKET PROGRAM ACTIVE LABOR MARKET PROGRAMS ADB AGE GROUPS AGE YOUTH AGGREGATE DEMAND ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS BANKS BENEFICIARIES BENEFICIARY CAPACITY BUILDING CAPITAL INVESTMENTS CAPITAL MARKETS CASH ASSISTANCE CASH PAYMENTS CASH TRANSFER CASH TRANSFER PROGRAMS CASH TRANSFERS CATASTROPHIC LOSSES CHILD ALLOWANCES CHILD LABOR CHRONIC POVERTY CONDITIONAL CASH CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS CORE LABOR STANDARDS CREATING OPPORTUNITIES CROP INSURANCE DATA QUALITY DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVENESS DISABILITY INSURANCE DISABILITY PENSIONS DRIVERS DROUGHT ECONOMIC BENEFITS ECONOMIC CRISES ECONOMIC CRISIS ECONOMIC DOWNTURN ECONOMIC DOWNTURNS ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC MOBILITY ECONOMIC SHOCKS EFFECTIVE RISK MANAGEMENT EMPLOYABILITY EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS EMPLOYMENT SERVICES ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITIES ENTREPRENEURSHIP EPIDEMICS FAMINE FINANCIAL CAPACITY FINANCIAL CRISES FOOD ASSISTANCE FOOD PROGRAM FOOD SECURITY FORMAL SECTOR WORKERS HEALTH ORGANIZATION HEALTH SERVICES HOMELESS HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IDIOSYNCRATIC SHOCKS INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME SECURITY INCOME SUPPORT INEQUALITY INFORMAL MECHANISMS INFORMAL SECTOR INFORMAL SECTOR WORKERS INNOVATION INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY INSURANCE PROGRAM INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SECURITY JOB CREATION JOB MARKET JOB TRAINING JOBS LABOR DEMAND LABOR ECONOMICS LABOR MARKET LABOR MARKET POLICIES LABOR MARKET PROGRAMS LABOR MARKETS LABOR OFFICE LABOR POLICIES LABOR PROGRAM LABOR PROGRAMS LABOR REGULATIONS LABOR STANDARDS LABOR SYSTEM LABOR TRANSFERS LABOUR LIFE CYCLE MACROECONOMIC STABILITY MALNUTRITION MANDATES MIGRATION MINIMUM INCOME NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE NATURAL DISASTERS OLD AGE OUTPUTS PENSION PENSION PLANS PENSIONS PERFORMANCE INDICATORS PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT PERFORMANCE MONITORING PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES POLITICAL ECONOMY POOR POVERTY LEVELS POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY TRAPS PRIVATE FIRMS PRIVATE PROGRAMS PRIVATE SECTOR PRIVATE SECTOR ACTIVITY PRODUCTIVE ASSETS PRODUCTIVE EMPLOYMENT PRODUCTIVE WORK PRODUCTIVITY PROGRAM DESIGN PROTECTING WORKERS PROTECTION SYSTEM PROTECTION SYSTEMS PUBLIC RESOURCES PUBLIC WORKS PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAM PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMS RECESSIONS RISK MANAGEMENT RISK MANAGEMENT INSTRUMENTS RURAL EMPLOYMENT SAFETY SAFETY NET PROGRAMS SAVINGS SAVINGS ASSOCIATIONS SAVINGS SCHEMES SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SCHOOL FEEDING SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAMS SERVICE DELIVERY SKILLS DEVELOPMENT SKILLS TRAINING SOCIAL ASSISTANCE SOCIAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS SOCIAL COHESION SOCIAL CONTRACT SOCIAL CONTRACTS SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL FUNDS SOCIAL INSURANCE SOCIAL INSURANCE PROGRAMS SOCIAL INVESTMENT SOCIAL NETWORKS SOCIAL PENSIONS SOCIAL POLICY SOCIAL PROTECTION SOCIAL PROTECTION PROGRAMS SOCIAL PROTECTION SERVICES SOCIAL PROTECTION STRATEGIES SOCIAL PROTECTION SYSTEMS SOCIAL RISK SOCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT SOCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK SOCIAL SAFETY NET SOCIAL SAFETY NETS SSN SUPPORT SYSTEM SYSTEMIC SHOCKS TARGETED FOOD TARGETING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT TRADE UNION TRADE UNIONS TRAINED WORKERS TRAINING PROGRAM TRAINING PROGRAMS UNEMPLOYED UNEMPLOYMENT UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS VULNERABLE GROUPS WEATHER INSURANCE WORKER WORKERS WORKS PROGRAM YOUTH EMPLOYMENT
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/01/16505186/resilience-equity-opportunity http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12648

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Summary:	Risk and the quest for opportunity feature heavily in economic life in the 21st century. Sustained growth in many developing countries has pulled billions out of poverty and into the middle class; but this economic upturn has yet to reach billions more, who face unemployment, disability, or illness, and struggle to protect themselves and their families against shocks. The poor are particularly vulnerable, being typically more exposed to risk and less able to access opportunities. In a world filled with risk and potential, social protection and labor systems are being built, refined or reformed in almost every country to help people and family's find jobs, improve their productivity, cope with shocks, and invest in the health, education, and well-being of their children. The World Bank supports social protection and labor in client countries as a central part of its mission to reduce poverty through sustainable, inclusive growth. The World Bank's new social protection and labor strategy (2012-22) lays out ways to deepen World Bank involvement, capacity, knowledge, and impact in social protection and labor. Three overarching goals, a clear strategic direction, and engagement principles guide this new strategy: 1) the overarching goals of the strategy are to help improve resilience, equity, and opportunity for people in both low- and middle-income countries; 2) the strategic direction is to help developing countries move from fragmented approaches to more harmonized systems for social protection and labor; and 3) the engagement principles for working with clients are to be country-tailored and evidence based in operations and knowledge work, and collaborative across a range of sectors and actors this new strategy addresses gaps in the current practice by helping make social protection and labor more responsive, more productive, and more inclusive of excluded regions and groups notably low-income countries and the very poor, the disabled, those in the informal sector and, in many cases, women. The strategy is not a 'one size fits all' approach. Instead, it calls for improving evidence, building capacity, and sharing knowledge across countries to facilitate informed, country-specific, fiscally sustainable social protection and labor programs and systems. The World Bank will support this agenda not only through lending, but critically by improving evidence, building capacity, and supporting knowledge sharing and collaboration across countries. This social protection and labor strategy builds on the achievements as well as the lessons from practice over the last decade and more. Moreover, it builds on the basic analytical foundation of the first World Bank social protection and labor strategy.

Resilience, Equity, and Opportunity

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