Safety Nets in Africa : Effective Mechanisms to Reach the Poor and Most Vulnerable

The need for safety nets in Sub-Saharan Africa is vast. In addition to being the world’s poorest region, Sub-Saharan Africa is also one of the most unequal. In this context, redistribution must be seen as a legitimate way to fight poverty and ensure shared prosperity - and all the more so in countri...

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Main Authors: del Ninno, Carlo, Mills, Bradford
Format: Publications & Research
Language:en_US
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank; and Agence Française de Développement 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21369