Organizing Social Protection in Federal States : International Examples of Federalism and Social Protection and Implications for Pakistan
Pakistan’s social protection system is still in a nascent stage of development and so is the country’s fiscal and institutional architecture for inter-governmental relations. In particular, the implicit devolution of social protection and related f...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/525311532077545572/Organizing-social-protection-in-federal-states-international-examples-of-federalism-and-social-protection-and-implications-for-Pakistan http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30210 |
| Summary: | Pakistan’s social protection system is
still in a nascent stage of development and so is the
country’s fiscal and institutional architecture for
inter-governmental relations. In particular, the implicit
devolution of social protection and related functions in the
eighteenth constitutional amendment in 2010 has created a
level of uncertainty and certain lack of consensus about the
definitive roles of federal versus provincial governments in
providing social protection to the population. This note is
intended to contribute to informed debates about the future
of federalism and social protection in Pakistan. It
describes key features of the ways in which mature
federations have organized their social protection sector
and summarizes possible implications for Pakistan. Drawing
on the descriptions on how social protection functions are
distributed across levels of government in ten relatively
mature federations (including South Africa which is
constitutionally a unitary state but is highly decentralized
in expenditure assignment), this discussion note is intended
as merely one type of input for policy-makers in Pakistan to
consider how best to organize the social protection
functions across levels of government in the country’s
evolving inter-governmental relations. |
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