Social Safety Nets: Issues and Recent Experience

April 15, 1998

Summary

The 14 papers that comprise this book, edited by Ke-young Chu and Sanjeev Gupta, provide a comprehensive review of the IMF's work on social safety nets. Part I provides a broad overview of the social concerns in structural policy and the basic work related to social safety nets. Part II deals with the design of social safety nets. Part III provides case studies on nine countries from different parts of the world.

Subject: Expenditure, Income, Labor, National accounts, Pension spending, Pensions, Personal income, Social assistance spending, Wages

Keywords: Africa, Baltics, BOOK, Caribbean, East Asia, Eastern Europe, ESAF program, government, Income, Middle East, Pension spending, Pensions, Personal income, price, price effect, retirement age, Social assistance spending, Sub-Saharan Africa, transition country, wage bill, Wages

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275
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781557756800.071
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