SUBJECT: STATE, SOCIAL PROTECTION AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES
INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT
SUBMITTED TO: PROF. PUSHPENDRA KUMAR
SUBMITTED BY: BHAWNA
(M2014CODP004)
“Social protection policies and programs are really just a form of residual social welfare and cannot address deep-seated problems of poverty.” Discuss.
SOCIAL PROTECTION
INTRODUCTION
“Social protection is the publically mandated policies and programs to address risk and the vulnerability among poor near poor households” (Babajanian et al 2012). It can build human capital and increase poor people’s productive capacity. Or in other words social protection transfers services and institutional safeguards to protect people “at risk” of being in need, it interventions …show more content…
In the low income countries, majority of the population doesn’t come under the formal sector. World Bank views that for reduction in the poverty, and for the sustained human and economic development a nation must have to assist its individuals, households, and also the communities for dealing effectively with various risks. Social protection is now continuously moving for the social risk management for reducing the economic vulnerability of the people. There is a shift in the paradigm of the development from making the dams, roads etc. to education, institutions etc. But the SP is never focused under the development processes. After introducing the OECD-type SP such as social insurance in the developing countries, most of the development thinkers or economists started to think that it will be the huge opportunity for the poor people and they started to neglect it. After the east Asian Crises (90s), many economists started to think that if the right SP is not there so the progress made on poverty can be the unemployment for the people. So it was necessary to address the risks that emerge from the globalization and also the distribution of resources will have to be equal. It results as, there was no certainty that the resource distribution will be equal, so it is the duty of the state to have national policies for the poor people. Then the …show more content…
• Increased income can support people to get adequate food, better education, better health facilities etc. and the improved economic status can help the people to take part into the social activities but on the other hand it is quite possible that it may not enhance the livelihood opportunities for the poor people.
For example: the interventions for the women in terms of social protection may help or to support their income level but it might be possible that this social protection may not tackle or deal with those informal norms that restricts the women to access to the income generating sources or opportunities.
RECENT DEBATES FOR SOCIAL PROTECTION
• Approx 80% of the people has no access to the basic social protection to tackle with the life risks. (global level)
• For the development process, to minimize the gaps between the included and excluded, poor and rich, is a challenge for the economists as well as for the development
INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT
SUBMITTED TO: PROF. PUSHPENDRA KUMAR
SUBMITTED BY: BHAWNA
(M2014CODP004)
“Social protection policies and programs are really just a form of residual social welfare and cannot address deep-seated problems of poverty.” Discuss.
SOCIAL PROTECTION
INTRODUCTION
“Social protection is the publically mandated policies and programs to address risk and the vulnerability among poor near poor households” (Babajanian et al 2012). It can build human capital and increase poor people’s productive capacity. Or in other words social protection transfers services and institutional safeguards to protect people “at risk” of being in need, it interventions …show more content…
In the low income countries, majority of the population doesn’t come under the formal sector. World Bank views that for reduction in the poverty, and for the sustained human and economic development a nation must have to assist its individuals, households, and also the communities for dealing effectively with various risks. Social protection is now continuously moving for the social risk management for reducing the economic vulnerability of the people. There is a shift in the paradigm of the development from making the dams, roads etc. to education, institutions etc. But the SP is never focused under the development processes. After introducing the OECD-type SP such as social insurance in the developing countries, most of the development thinkers or economists started to think that it will be the huge opportunity for the poor people and they started to neglect it. After the east Asian Crises (90s), many economists started to think that if the right SP is not there so the progress made on poverty can be the unemployment for the people. So it was necessary to address the risks that emerge from the globalization and also the distribution of resources will have to be equal. It results as, there was no certainty that the resource distribution will be equal, so it is the duty of the state to have national policies for the poor people. Then the …show more content…
• Increased income can support people to get adequate food, better education, better health facilities etc. and the improved economic status can help the people to take part into the social activities but on the other hand it is quite possible that it may not enhance the livelihood opportunities for the poor people.
For example: the interventions for the women in terms of social protection may help or to support their income level but it might be possible that this social protection may not tackle or deal with those informal norms that restricts the women to access to the income generating sources or opportunities.
RECENT DEBATES FOR SOCIAL PROTECTION
• Approx 80% of the people has no access to the basic social protection to tackle with the life risks. (global level)
• For the development process, to minimize the gaps between the included and excluded, poor and rich, is a challenge for the economists as well as for the development