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Modernizing social assistance to promote social inclusion

Modernizing social assistance to promote social inclusion. Armando Barrientos Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK and Chronic Poverty Research Centre www.chronicpoverty.org. New forms of social assistance in the South. Innovative responses to poverty and vulnerability

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Modernizing social assistance to promote social inclusion

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  1. Modernizing social assistance to promote social inclusion Armando Barrientos Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK and Chronic Poverty Research Centre www.chronicpoverty.org

  2. New forms of social assistance in the South • Innovative responses to poverty and vulnerability • Categorical social transfers – social pension in South Africa, Bangladesh • Guaranteed employment scheme – India • Conditional social transfers – PROGRESA/OPORTUNIDADES, Bolsa Familia • Unconditional social assistance – China’s Minimum Living Standard Scheme • Integrated programmes – Chile Solidario

  3. Social assistance in a developing country context • Social assistance has a key role within social protection in developing countries • high incidence of poverty and vulnerability • limited social insurance, basic services, and labour standards • …implies social assistance must seek to protect, promote, and empower • …and address multidimensional poverty • with a focus on households rather than individuals • Social assistance has a larger and more complex role in developing countries

  4. Integration with labour market policy and inclusion • Linkages to labour market policy are important, well designed social assistance • reduces child labour and improves schooling • facilitates investment in human capital (nutrition, health, and education) • facilitates the incorporation into employment of young adults and the unemployed • ….without significant adverse effects on work incentives among adults

  5. Extending social assistance to all? • more work needs to be done to extend social assistance and protection to all, and as of right, by • removing social exclusion resulting from programme objectives - Bolsa Escola to Bolsa Familia? • integrating piecemeal assistance programmes • starting from the poorest • ensure that basic services are strengthened to meet increases in demand • integrate social assistance and activation policies • learning and capacity are essential

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