Scaling up social protection: price & productivity effects on growth
Levy, S.
(2015).
Scaling up social protection: price & productivity effects on growth.
(2015).
Scaling up social protection: price & productivity effects on growth.
As gradually more countries begin implementing social transfers to protect the most vulnerable parts of their population, the issue of how these policies will impact the local and the larger economy is an increasingly important one. Today’s blog argues that the indirect effects of social transfers, particularly on prices and productivity, should be accounted for when designing and scaling up social transfer programmes.