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Insecurity and social protection—has the World Bank got it right?
Author(s) -
Moser Caroline
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.791
Subject(s) - typology , vulnerability (computing) , empowerment , social protection , poverty , citizen journalism , poverty reduction , risk management , business , disaster risk reduction , public relations , economic growth , sociology , political science , economics , computer security , finance , computer science , law , anthropology
While all three WDR 2000/01 themes — opportunity, empowerment and security — are deemed to be of equal importance, security is probably the most strategic instrument for targeted poverty reduction. This paper critically discusses the two innovative frameworks introduced in the report: the twofold typology of risk and vulnerability, and the risk management framework. In so doing it highlights the lack of new instruments to strengthen informal risk reduction, that require participatory approaches, and locally defined tools, to ensure that ‘the voices of the poor’ move beyond complaints to commitments. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.