Introducing Basic Social Protection in Low-Income Countries: Lessons from Existing Programmes

Abstract

Social protection is scarce in low-income countries, but there are encouraging signs that this situation is rapidly changing. There is growing recognition that social protection is an essential component of an effective development strategy, especially in the context of supporting and facilitating rapid social and economic transformation (Fouarge, 2003; ILO, 2005). A wide rage of evidence emerging from the evaluation of large-scale social protection programmes in middle-income developing countries underscores the large potential gains from these programmes in terms of poverty and vulnerability reduction and human capital accumulation (Barrientos and Lloyd-Sherlock, 2003; Morley and Coady, 2003). This raises the important issue of whether introducing or extending social protection programmes in low-income countries could secure similar gains. This chapter addresses this issue by drawing out the main lessons emerging from existing social protection programmes in low-income countries. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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