social safety nets

The Bank is moving forward with a new programme to give rapid support so countries can strengthen their social safety nets.

Many of these countries have developed their economies and improved their social safety nets, she said.

The extensive social safety nets that have been established across the industrialized world also cushioned the pain felt by many.

The government dismantled many social safety nets as it moved out of the planned economy, but has started to rebuild them in recent years.

The Bank also increased support for social safety nets, such as school feeding programs, during the food and financial crises.

Traditionally used in middle- to high-income countries, social safety nets are increasingly popular in low-income countries.

Operational responses will include funding budget expenditures in infrastructure services, education, and health and social safety nets.

Social safety-nets are still inadequate, so Chinese families have to cover the costs of health care, education and retirement.

We are reviewing our social safety nets to better support Singaporeans in a more volatile environment.

Building social safety nets in the form of more access to jobs, education and health care.

It is not surprising that the summit did little about biofuels, export bans or social-safety nets (which it hardly discussed).

Milestones include more aggressive measures to strengthen social safety nets and greater exchange rate flexibility.

Social safety nets should be reinforced to avoid jobless people falling into poverty, the OECD said.

In some countries (like the US) this means an urgent bolstering of social safety nets.

Question two asks how public enterprise transformation interacts with the labour system and the relation to social safety nets.

Asia's less open capital accounts , younger populations and rudimentary social safety nets also help drive savings higher.

and the combination of low levels of financial development with inadequate social safety nets, which encouraged higher savings.

Most of the nations atop our list are democratic, business-friendly, and boast strong social safety nets.

Apparentlyit is too hard for Asian policymakers to establish robust social safety nets and stimulate internal private consumption.

A second key distinguishing factor is the provision of social safety nets.

Stronger social safety nets are urgently needed to protect the most vulnerable in rich and poor countries.

What are effects on wages and inequality , on social safety nets, on production, and innovation?

"American workers [in the 1930s] had painfully few of the social safety nets that today help families, " Romer said.

Better social safety-nets might encourage Asians to save less.

It also involves policies and programmes, such as social safety nets, which enhance direct and immediate access to food by the hungry.

Ensure effective social safety nets.

The Group also emphasised the importance of social safety nets in support of reform efforts.

Countries such as Sweden and the Netherlands are achieving economic growth without sacrificing their social safety nets.

He knows from direct experience the importance of social safety nets.

Expanding social safety nets can make even poor citizens less dependent on traditional powerful patrons.

In the 1930s, there were fewer social safety nets than there are today to soften the impact of job loss.

In last five years, World Bank approved 123 social safety nets projects in 60 countries; funding reaches $2. 58 billion FY10.

So building social safety nets in poor developing countries remains a worthy but long-term project.

To put in place stronger automatic stabilizers and targeted social safety nets;