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Social Safety Nets in Developing Countries

Geoff Riley

9th July 2015

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New research from the World Bank underlines the lack of social safety nets facing hundreds of millions of people in many of the world's poorest countries. The World Bank finds that only 1/3 of the world's poor are covered by safety nets programmes with the largest gaps in Sub-saharan Africa and South Asia.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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