Romania aims to be a country in which all citizens are provided with an equal opportunity toparticipate in society, where their basic needs are met and their differences respected, and whereall people feel valued and can live in dignity.Our society is still far from this ideal. One in every five...

This paper reports on a rapid assessment of Malawi's integrated social registry, known as the Unified Beneficiary Registry (UBR). The timing of the assessment was ripe given the upcoming round of continued expansion of the UBR and a planned shift in registration targets (from 50 percent to 100...

[eng] Robert Holzmann, Lynne Sherburne-Benz and Emil Tesliuc — Management of social risk : the World Bank and social protection in a world of globalisation . Social protection is back on the development agenda. Long-time dismissed as ineffective, expensive or even detrimental to development in...

Summary This paper focuses on measuring the extent to which publicly subsidized transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean redistribute income. The redistributive power of 56 transfers in eight countries is measured by their simulated impacts on poverty and inequality, and by their...