"For Protection & Promotion: The Design and Implementation of Effective Safety Nets" discussed on Wednesday, October 8 at 12:00 pm in I2-250

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| (Embedded image moved | For Protection & Promotion |
| to file: pic15787.jpg) | The Design and Implementation of |
| | Effective Safety Nets |
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| | Margaret E. Grosh , Carlo Del |
| | Ninno , Emil Tesliuc , and Azedine |
| | Ouerghi |
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| | The role of safety nets in reducing |
| | poverty and vulnerability is |
| | increasingly recognized in social |
| | policy. As non-contributory |
| | transfer programs targeted to the |
| | poor or vulnerable, well designed |
| | safety nets can play a productive |
| | role in promoting development, as |
| | well as redistributing wealth to |
| | the most vulnerable. Drawing on |
| | the international literature and |
| | operational documents from the |
| | World Bank's experience in over 100 |
| | countries, this book provides |
| | comprehensive guidance on the |
| | design and implementation of |
| | cost-effective safety nets, |
| | including how to define eligibility |
| | and select beneficiaries, set and |
| | pay benefits, and monitor and |
| | evaluate programs and systems. |
| | Marking the first major World Bank |
| | publication on the topic in over |
| | ten years, the book synthesizes the |
| | literature to date and enriches it |
| | with new examples on various |
| | program options?cash transfers |
| | (conditional and unconditional), |
| | in-kind transfers, price subsidies, |
| | fee waivers, and public works. It |
| | concludes with a comprehensive |
| | diagnostic for fitting safety net |
| | systems and programs to specific |
| | circumstances. |
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| | For more information or to buy the |
| | book, please click here |
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 PM
World Bank I Building
Auditorium I2-250

Lunch will be served at 1:30 PM

OPENING REMARKS BY
Shanta Devarajan
Chief Economist, Africa Region, World Bank:

MODERATED BY
Robert Holzmann,
Director, Social Protection & Labor Department, Human Development
Network, World Bank

PRESENTED BY
Margaret Grosh
Lead Economist, Social Protection Department, Human Development Network, World
Bank

COMMENTS BY
H.E. Ato Mekonnen Mnayazewal
State Minister, Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, Ethiopia

Diego Molano Aponte
Former Directorof Social Policy of the Presidential Agency for Social Action and
International Cooperation, Colombia

Rakesh Nangia
Operations Director, World Bank Institute, World Bank
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