Social safety nets (SSNs) are increasingly relevant to helping households prepare, cope, and adapt to shocks in a climate of increased frequency and severity of disasters. Disasters can impact the income, consumption, and human capital of households. While disasters caused by natural hazards can impact anyone, the poor often bear the brunt of shock impacts, while vulnerable and other disadvantaged populations fall into poverty. When poor people are...
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2020/01/01
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2020/07/17
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Guidance Note
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Cash Transfer
Citation
Williams,Asha Monifa; Martinez Angulo,Ursula Milagros.
Tailoring Adaptive Social Safety Nets to Latin America and the Caribbean : Guidance Note : Guidance Note (English). Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/427911593594428268