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Abstract
This report reviews Sri Lanka's social protection programs and proposes strategic options for enhancing their role in promoting growth with equity. Well designed social protection (SP) systems can help address poverty and inequality through redistribution, and mitigate risks and facilitate employment opportunities, thus contributing to both growth and equity goals. The report first identifies the poor and vulnerable (chapter 1) and then reviews and evaluates employment protection and promotion policies and programs (chapter 2), social security/insurance schemes (chapter 3), and safety net programs (chapter 4) and proposes policy options The concluding chapter summarizes key analytical findings and presents a unified policy framework to improve social protection. The report relies mainly on extensive existing literature from Sri Lankan and international researchers. The remaining part of this section summarizes the main issues and policy options.
| Document type: | Working paper |
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| Place of Publication: | Washington, D.C. |
| Date: | 2007 |
| Version: | Secondary publication |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Jun 2015 |
| Number of Pages: | 98 |
| Faculties / Institutes: | Miscellaneous > Individual person |
| DDC-classification: | "Social services; association" |
| Controlled Keywords: | Sri Lanka, Soziale Sicherheit |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Sri Lanka, Soziale Sicherung / Sri Lanka, Social Protection |
| Subject (classification): | Politics Sociology |
| Countries/Regions: | Sri Lanka |
| Additional Information: | © World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/19638 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO |
