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Systemic Crises and the Social Protection System:
Three Proposals for World Bank Action
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Ravi Kanbur
www … known. Crises can come suddenly, and when they do come we will not know quite how quickly they
will recede.
3. Implications for Social Protection
These … two features of systemic crises— uncertainty about who exactly they will impoverish, and
uncertainty about when they will strike (and when they will recede)—are key in conceptualizing a social
protection …