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Social protection and poverty
Author(s) -
Barrientos Armando
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
international journal of social welfare
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.664
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1468-2397
pISSN - 1369-6866
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2397.2011.00783.x
Subject(s) - poverty , vulnerability (computing) , social protection , social welfare , social policy , economic growth , political science , social vulnerability , welfare , development economics , publishing , developing country , sociology , economics , psychological intervention , medicine , law , computer security , psychiatry , computer science
Barrientos A. Social protection and poverty Int J Soc Welfare 2011: 20: 240–249 © 2011 United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), International Journal of Social Welfare © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the International Journal of Social Welfare. In the last decade, social protection has emerged as a policy framework employed to address poverty and vulnerability in developing countries. The article links social protection to new perspectives on poverty and vulnerability, identifies and discusses key issues in the emergence of social assistance programmes in developing countries, and assesses their potential contribution to addressing poverty and vulnerability in the South.