Research Catalog

Title

Social protection, growth and employment : evidence from India, Kenya, Malawi, Mexico and Tajikistan / United Nations Development Programme.

Publication

New York, NY : United Nations Development Programme, Bureau for Development Policy, ©2013.

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Additional Authors

United Nations Development Programme. Bureau for Development Policy.

Description

xiii, 310 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"The global financial and economic crisis has highlighted and reinforced the need for effective social protection mechanisms that can not only prevent households from falling into poverty but also permanently raise their earnings. Meanwhile, social protection policies must be consistent with labour market mechanisms and with employment policy in order for either or both to be as beneficial as possible. This volume, using a broad definition of social protection, takes an in-depth look at selected programmes and their interaction with employment generation and growth in India, Kenya, Malawi, Mexico, Peru and Tajikistan. It focuses on poverty and aims to explore how social and economic policies can be better integrated to simultaneously advance social welfare, employment outcomes and inclusive growth."--Publisher website.

Subject

• Poverty > International cooperation
• Economic development > International cooperation
• Poor > Employment
• Human rights > Economic aspects
• Human rights > Social aspects
• Sozialpolitik
• Armut
• Arbeitsmarkt
• Erwerbstätigkeit
• Indien
• Kenia
• Malawi
• Mexiko
• Peru
• Tadschikistan

Note

• "May 2013"

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available online.

Contents

Growth, employment, poverty and social protection: a conceptual framework / Albert Berry -- Social protection and labour markets in Malawi: the centrality of agriculture / Andrew Charman -- Addressing transitory and chronic poverty: social policies in Peru 1990-2010 / Janina Leon -- Challenges of transition economies: economic reforms, emigration and employment in Tajikistan / Omair Amir and Albert Berry -- Labour, income and social programmes in contemporary Mexico / Carlos Salas -- Guaranteeing jobs for the rural poor: an assessment of India's MGNREGA public works programme / Eduardo Zepeda, Diana Alarcon, Scott McDonald, Chandan Sapkota, Manoj Panda, and Ganesh Kumar -- The youth employment challenge: the insertion of Kenya's youth into formal and informal jobs / Eduardo Zepeda, Fatou Leigh, Lydia Ndirangu and Jacob Omolo -- Policy, institutional and methodological lessons from six country studies / Albert Berry.

ISBN

• 9211263638
• 9789211263633

OCLC

• ocn852733416
• 852733416
• SCSB-1754753

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library